We see the superhero flying at full speed after a getaway vehicle. A group of armed men just robbed over one million dollars in cash from the bank and are now speeding through the city. He darts back and forth to dodge the shower of bullets flying at him from the car, which was preventing him from getting any closer.

"I can't let these crooks get away," he grunted to himself as he curved back and forth through the air.

Suddenly he was blind sighted by a large black object coming from the car. It was a high powered electric tazer. It hit him in the side and his muscles locked up, he stopped mid air and went crashing down and smacked and bounced on the ground. This bought the thieves time to escape from his view. By the time he got out of it and regained control of his muscles enough to fly, the crooks had maneuvered the city like a maze, and he didn't know where to look, they had gotten away. He looked over several city blocks and couldn't find him, and was forced to give up.

"****" he said to himself.

He flew off to the nearby park and found a secluded spot to meditate and heal.

That was the forth unsuccessful attempt to catch bank robbers this week!

On the news that night

"The Tomerarenai purotto corporation just received over $5 million dollars in donations from an anonymous donor this evening for their new project on Zenchō hill outside city limits.

The project to build a new factory there has been underway for three months now and they've really been moving along thanks to the help of all these private donors that must really believe in their cause, which of coarse is to develop new "greener" technology to help the environment and cut down on pollution.

We have a spokesperson for the organization here with us now how are you?"

"Good and thank you, I'm really honored to be part of this amazing organization and to see such a great turn out of donors for such a good cause. It's been amazing with over 37 million dollars donated by private, anonymous donors over the last three months, it's amazing..."

About half the city watched that news broadcast stream into their homes on their television sets.

It was about 2am when the superhero came out of his meditative state in the park.

He got up energized and flew around.

He saw some guy trying to steal some lady's purse, he zipped down and stood right behind the guy without him even noticing.

The guy got the purse turned around and ran right into him and knocked himself down.

"What do you think you're doing?" the superhero said authoritarily. Then he lunged in grabbed the guy by the shirt at the scruff of the chest. With his other hand he picked up the lady's purse, handed it to her, and told her to go home and get out of the dangerous night city streets. Then he flew the criminal to the police station, told them what he had witnessed, and took off.

Suddenly he heard police sirens all over the city they seemed to be closing in on a specific area, the superhero flew to that area to see what was going on.

He found a police sergeant standing next to a cop car, and stopped to ask him what's going on.

"A masked lunatic just killed 19 people and is now trying to escape in a small silver car, we've got every available unit trying to hunt him down."

He wasted no time, taking up in the air leaving a wind in his wake, the superhero started quickly combing the city for a small silver car driving conspicuously. He found one, and when he flew over it to check it out, all of a sudden he had gunshots being fired at him from inside the car.

"This must be it," he charged the car with full speed but the driver sped up to keep ahead of him.

This isn't going to work, he thought, I should make them think they lost me and follow them secretly and see where they go.

The next time a gunshot was fired the superhero grabbed his chest and purposefully fell down, to make them think he had been shot. Once their guard was down he followed them in secret.

They drove outside of the city thinking they had lost all tails, down a couple winding roads, then climbed Zenchō hill toward the Tomerarenai purotto corporation's construction spot, then went inside.

The superhero landed outside the building and contemplated his next plan. He noticed an open window to an office on the second floor, he carefully peered through the window and saw no one in the office, he flew in and landed on the floor careful not to make a sound above a mouse squeak. He quietly crept through the empty hallways until he reached the staircase, when he heard voices whispering downstairs, "He's gonna be here any minute/ get everything ready."

The hero thought he had no time to lose, he took to the air, bolted down stairs and with a loud dramatic voice yelled "Halt!"

"He's here!" they yelled as one of them ran toward a giant device that looked like a satellite dish, and the other one ran and pulled a rope, dropping piles and piles of smoldering coal around the superhero that immediately made him so sick he could barely move. industrial type smoke was his weakness.

"We've been planning for you to come here," the guy in the mask said firing up the satellite dish looking weapon and pointing it at him.

"W-What do you want?" the superhero asked weakened, frail, and short of breath on his hands and knees on the floor.

"To **** you so you won't stand in our way"

The superhero was growing weaker, and weaker, as the giant atomic laser pointed at him started glowing red, I told you this story was called "death of a superhero".

"Death, of a superhero?" the superhero grunted, "DEATH, of a SUPERHERO!?!" he shouted again, "YOU'VE BEEN ORCHESTRATING MY DEATH!" The superhero yelled at the narrator.

Yes I have, the narrator said all the people in the room could hear me, I've been planning your death since before you went after that getaway vehicle, I have such omnipotent like power over your world, I'm the reason the taser gave the one's working for these two time to escape, I'm the reason you never checked this place out until everything was ready, and now I get to watch these two **** you, and laugh, knowing that you'll never find me and there's nothing you can do to change events.

Now, the beam was fully charged

"No!" the superhero thought, "up till this point, I thought I had to go along with everything the narrator said, but no!" He started to slowly manage to get up.

The masked killer hit the button, fired the laser, and killed the superhero instantly.

Wait what?

"You think you can just **** me by saying so," the superhero grunted out louder slowly rising to his feet. Mentally forcing his body to work even in the presence of his weakness, in reality, contrary to what the narrator said, the beam was still charging.

"No!" the superhero continued, getting stronger and healthier, "THERE WILL BE NO DEATH OF A SUPER HERO!!!" suddenly the superhero's personal energy was strong enough to clear a bubble around him of fresh air pushing the smoke around it. He flew through the air at bullet speed and punched the masked killer across the room and out of consciousness. Then he went for the assistant who was running to the door, in the heat of the moment, the superhero, hitting him up from behind, punched a hole straight through his skull and he fell to the ground head-gored-dead. The superhero deactivated the laser. and stood and looked around to try and find that supervillian mastermind, the narrator.

"You will never find me," the narrator said, "I exist in an inexcusable part of your reality."

Then another voice broke through, "I will open up a portal to the narrator for you" the author said, "be wary though, even in his own part of this dimension, he is very frippery and slick, you must not let him break free into you're general reality, lest he end your world."

Suddenly a glowing golden sword appeared in a light before the superhero, he took it and bowed, understanding what he was to do.

A shimmering white and grey portal swirled out of thin air. He looked at it for a second as it grew outwards until it was big enough for him to walk through. He slowly marched into it, guard heightened as he did not know what to expect, carrying the glowing golden sword behind his back.

Inside the portal was a large white room where the narrator lived. there was a large white shelf, four walls and a ceiling, the portal remained open.

He looked around but didn't see the narrator at first, when he realized the narrator had filled half the room with a thick white fog to mask himself.

"Show yourself you coward!" the hero yelled. Sudddenly a large fist came out of the fog and punched the superhero right in the face, he stumbled back a few steps, but didn't let it knock him over. Suddenly a humanoid figure stepped out of the fog, it had a body like a man but a head like a king cobra.

"S--sssss--o" it said, "you found a way to find me," "Hisssssssssssss..."

"I found you and I will destroy you to free my world from your evil," the superhero said.

"Is-s that sssssssssso" the beast said. "And how do you plan to do that? Hisssssssss".

Then the narrator's eyes widened when he say the glowing gold sword behind his back.

"I will cover myself in armor that that sword can't pierce." He said.

"And an armor appeared around the narrator, except it only appeared to cover his head, and his face was still bare." The narrator said and it happened.

The superhero lunged at the narrator with the sword but the narrator slipped to the right and shot ***** of fire at the superhero, but the superhero dodged.

"And his hand got shaky and it greatly effected his aim," the narrator hissed out.

The superhero swung at the narrator, but missed everytime.

"I've got to steady my aim" the superhero thought to himself, putting most of his energy into his arm to hold it steady. The narrator backed away from him, hissing and darting back and forth as if antagonizing him, perhaps trying to distract him and his focus.

Suddenly he felt a surge of energy push back from the sword, flow up his arm and flood his body, the sword glowed brighter and he was in control of himself again.

He went after the narrator full force, swinging and jabbing the sword, but the narrator dodged every attack.

"You'll never defeat me!" the narrator hissed.

But while he said that he lost focus, and the superhero swung the sword right into the side of the human part of the body, so deep it hit something metal and stopped.

"Then he dropped the sword," the narrator said quickly and it happened. The superhero's hand snapped wide open before his willpower could stop it, and the sword dropped to the ground with a "shink".

Acting super fast, the narrator dropped to the ground and picked up the sword with his teeth, and slithered out of his fake, damaged human body into his true form, a giant king cobra looking snake, covered in a heavy metal armor that was scaly and didn't restrict his movements. Quickly, he slithered over to the portal, but the superhero grabbed his lower armor before he got a chance to escape into the hero's world, and used his body to anchor the snake to that spot.

The narrator swung and slithered his body to try to free himself from the hero's hold but he was holding on to well, and the serpent could not escape.

The hero did not know what to do, he needed to get the sword back and slay the serpent, but he had to keep both hands on him to keep him from getting free.

He had an idea, he used his legs to help anchor the serpent, and climbed him to get to his head to retrieve the sword. Slowly he worked his way up the snake as he slithered and struggled to get free. When it seemed inevitable that the hero was gonna get the sword back, the serpent spit it out and it landed next to the door. Then he shot fireballs out of his mouth at point blank range at the superhero which distracted him enough for him to loose his grasp, and let the serpent break free. The serpent quickly slithered over to the portal, hissed "goodbye sucker", mouthed the sword once again, and slithered out the portal.

The superhero jumped up and flew after the serpent, and crash landed onto of him on the other side of the now closing portal.

"The masked murderer woke up and came over to help the narrator," the serpent hissed out.

Suddenly the masked murderer came over and the hero was trying to get him on his side to break the stalemate.

As the snake and the superhero wrestled, the superhero called out to the masked murderer, "Don't help him, if he escapes me now, he'll destroy the world!"

"Don't listen to your enemy," the narrator hissed out, "**** him!"

"Don't listen to him," the superhero tried to reason with him, "he's just manipulating you, everybody, he's the reason you wanted to **** me and do this whole project in the first place, YOU ultimately have free will! and we need to **** him."

The narrator strikes and bit the superhero's arm for telling the masked killer he had free will.

"What do you need!" the masked ****** shouted when he got over there.

"**** him" the serpent hissed out!

"The sword!" the hero shouted.

The masked murderer, not knowing what to do, picked up the sword and handed it to the hero.

The superhero used it to pry off a piece of the serpent's armor, poised it into position and struck down. The narrator shifted his body however so the sword narrowly missed, and curved his tail so the open spot in the armor was underneath him, "Grab him!" the superhero said, hold him steady so I can get a good shot."

The Masked murderer did just that, and the hero drove the sword through the opening and impaled the narrator right there, and actually cut him in two.

"But then the narrator's body sealed at the womb and he slithered free" the serpent said and it happened, and he slithered at full speed toward the same door the masked murderer's assistant tried to escape through, and he was making distance.

"And then a layer of cement formed around the superhero's ankle so he couldn't chase the narrator." and a piece of cement attached to the floor formed around his ankle.

But the superhero made quick work of that, a **** of the leg and it reduced to crumbles and he got up and chased the serpent.

The serpent got outside the door and mumbled something, suddenly the door was a pure steel wall. Three punches by the superhero weakened the steel and severely dented it, the forth punch and it went flying off and the superhero ran outside and saw the narrator escaping into the brush. He knew what he had to do, he lunged at him and grabbed him just by the head, and ****** the sword through a hail of fireballs straight into it's mouth, the narrator couldn't speak to reverse that action and he died shortly after.

It all started at the beginning,When people thought I was missing,Because I stopped preaching,And the broken sword stop singing,Force myself to stop thinking,Lost hope to keep wishing,So the birds stop whistling,

Sitting in the middle of the plain fields,Use a sword that you can’t wield,Defending the land with a broken shield,Controlling power over a dark seal,Being evil makes you feel sick,I rather love than to be rich,Not gonna rush life through a glitch,Press the start button with one click,

A Broken Sword is one thing,I always loved it when the world sings,I can’t stop thinking about you,How come you are so true?I’m sorry i ever doubted you,My broken heart always loved you,Keeping us together with super glue,I won’t hurt you I promise you,

Every single day when i go outside,I meditate,And I feel like i’m lost in the sky,I suffered with the mistakes i done in the pass,Cutting yourself with a broken glass,Pain hurts but it never last,Let me look into your bright blue eyes,The Broken Sword is Elder wise,Not being manipulated with dumb lies,Like hell,

My mind is so mixed up confused,Forget you life, ***** you!Dreaming with a decent meal on my plate,Promising myself not to hate,Show I'm different I'm real not fake,How am I going to make this world a better place?

Shadow is the same as darkness,You're a shadow in the night,I been fighting all day,I'm tired I see death in sight,World got me on my knees praying,Sometimes I feel like I'm begging,Hoping for no more insanity,At the end the world just keep rotating.

Life is just how it is,I can’t make it better,It’s getting cold I need a sweater,My eyes are going blind,After so much that is going on i’m surprise the sun still shines,I always wanted to fly away with the wind,That person hates his life and shedding his skin,

The Broken Sword is the legendary sword,The Broken Sword was used by a WarLord,Slice from left to right,Throw one punch get knocked out,Good night,Have a lot of times when you just don't feel it,Have a lot of times when you just can't be it,Have a lot of times when you just can't see it,Have a lot of times when you just can't believe it,

The Broken Sword is like a god Sword,A sword of hatred,A sword Of Justice,Of VengenceOf Life and Death,The sword has been fighting for thousands of years,Now it has been destroyed,Nowhere to be found,Maybe it's a good thing,I didn't say it was meant for evil no I didn't.Finally The Broken Sword is forever hidden.One day The Broken Sword won't be so broken anymore,Whenever it gets lifted,We all get that feeling that “No way, I felt it!”

.Jerrica had found Lost.The treasure buried above ground.The memory foam with dementia.The quill with no nib …she thought about feather pens.Catching herself from fallingthe swoon had caught her cold.This **** ****** swordwas proving to be elusiveand now she was under sustained attack.From a personal fetish.It just wouldn't leave her alone,creeping into her mind unbidden.She needed to scratch an itch,if only she knew what that itch was.

Trolls are magickally bound to their bridge.Leaving it is usually fatal.But Gyb had bones to gnaw,and once he had his teeth employedhis mind was a captive onlooker.A crazy plan formed in his head,possibly avoiding the brain.He took mud and formed a figure,then some of his hair clippingsmoulded into the head.Then he took a leap of disbelief!He looked into the river and … Click!Snapped his fingers and fixed the image.He cut it out of the meniscusand attached it to the doll familiar.

“Did Achilles have damp anklesor was he well heeled?”Morfine had asked Choklut.“Neither. He was the one who sneezedand opened the Fête of the Suitors”.“No. I think he was called Telemarketing,he sneezed and they drew the tombola raffle”.“Wasn't there a Goddess involved as well?”.“Um … Yes, maybe the Goddess of Tissues?”.“Snivel? No, she is more tears than snot.I think its the one who turned her husbandinto a swan, and made him ****** her handmaiden”.“Oooo Nasty!”“No, Nasty fell in love with his own profile,and called things off with his nymph,the reverberations can still be heard today”.There was a brief pause … then,“What are we doing Choklut?We found a magickal sword and …talking of which, where is it?”.“I don't know. You had it last”.Just then a serving girl gave them a note.It said. Tomatoes, Peppers, Onions, Eggs …“Not that side you dyk” she said.Morfine turned the note over and read.“Quick, no time to lose.Someone saw the sword in the river.We have to get to stanza 8before it goes over the waterfall!”.“Oh” said Choklut “I've never seen a stanza belly flop”.

It was true.Contrary to the laws of physics.Kelm saw the sword floating down river.It looked like any other sword.So he let it be, dismissed it.He couldn't swim anyway.He mused on the irony of that.Nobody learnt to swim and yet drowningwas an undignified death for a barbarian.If he could swimhe could find the fishes hiding places.

Jerrica had also been musing.With a Poet.That was during the last 3 stanza's.But now …she saw a sword floating in the river.Something didn't quite fit.Something was not in the right place.She placed the Poet back in her breast pocket.'If only he wasn't just 4 inches high' she thought'he is rather handsome and intelligent'.Bingo! She had it. But she didn't want it.Armydiseases Principle of Liquid Dispersement!It states!Introduce a solid object into a body of liquid,then the corresponding volume of liquid is dispersedback to the nearest solid.So, right now there is a very small floodin the shape of a very small swordravishing the local area.She decided, quite rightly as it turns out,that she was feeding herself a red herring.

Slim stood on the bridgestaring at the churning water below.How did it happen?A stanza all of his own,ruined by the intrusion of morons.“Morfine and Choklut” he bellowed“I'm going to eviscerate you”. The wind carried a few of the words away,but that was the gist of it.“Hello” a voice said.Slim had an accident, and jumped out of his skin.And plunged into the cold water.A strong arm pulled him out,and he was face to face with a troll.“My name is Gyb. I hate Morf Chok also”.Nothing had prepared Slim for meeting a troll.Not even the etti-queue-etti lessons at school.'Would you care for afternoon tea?'seemed rather inappropriate.Gyb broke the awkward silence.“Look! Sword floating”.Slim didn't look.Convinced the troll would eat him.Thats their way. Distract and devour.But he couldn't help it, he snuck a look.And the sword slid on by gently bobbing,tiny little runes glinting in the sun.

For its part the sword was serenity itself.Chilled out to the max.Resting on the water. Relaxing and reclining.Life was good for the sword.It had just passed a boy fishing,poking his rod down a fish hole.It had passed a young woman,who looked confused and flustered.It slid under a stone bridge.A troll with a doll,and a man with questionable odour.And then he heard the roaring.He sent out his senses,no mean feat for a sword,and 'felt' its surroundings.Its image eye caught sight of the future.It was an effing great waterfall.And the future was the way he was heading.For now.

Narrative Interlude

At this point in the story the author, Pagan Paul, is compelledto inform the reader/listener of a complaint receivedfrom Messrs Morfine and Choklut.The substance of which amounts to the following:That the said author is willfully under using their talentas supporting cast and denying them access to many stanza's.Furthermore they are threatening to expose the authors'irregularities' in his relationship with Princess (name redacted).The author, Pagan Paul, responds thus:I should like to remind Messrs Morfine and Choklutthat, with astroke of my quill, I can eradicate them.Drop them from the story all together.And with reference to Princess (name redacted) -'Its my Poem and I'll irregularit if I want to'.Dear reader/listener prepare yourself for stanza 9.It has a waterfall in it.Maybe Morfine and Choklut will appear, maybe not.They are the ones over a barrel.

Minutes after the sword floated bysomething else caught her eye.To boys on a barrel, in the water.Boys barreling along or a barrel buoying along?Choklut noticed her by the bank.'funny place to have a cash machine' he thought.Doing his best to impress and look brave.Morfine waved and nearly fell off.Suddenly the barrel lid openedand Slim poked his head out like a tortoise.“What the …?” said Choklut.“Just repaying a debt boys” he said.“But you owe us nothing” Morfine replied.“Oh but I do” snarled Slim“I owe you one times intrusion into your own stanza”.He ducked back inside, and slammed the lid.“Of all the fatherless ...”“I blame the author” said Choklut.“Yeah well, he is the one who's gonna be sorry,we've just muscled in on stanza 8,and relegated that waterfall to stanza 9” Morfine chimed.“Morfine. Morfine! I hear the waterfall coming”.“No! Not now. He has to leave it until 9 now,we are about to cross the finish line on 8”.The waterfall loomed.

Actually the waterfall knew nothing of weaving.It just stayed where it was, pouring.Spectacular, it was a very pretty waterfall.It must be. It attracted tourists.And it had fun!It loved watching detritus tumble,teeter on the brink. And fall.Especially tourists.It was over 300 paces high,less than 40 paces wide,its descent magnificent liquid ballet,sparkling droplets shining like jewels,forever transcending light refraction,and plunging, plunging, plunging,into a gorgeous azure puddle.About ankle deep.

By This Sword 911 Is AvengedThis was written right after 911 now I’m rewriting it from the time that has passed a cooling a distancing has occurred in us not in our Enemies I will write the first paragraph basically as it was written then go from there. They have cells; we have wells and mines, Wells Of emotion for God, flag and country the mines are far flung and close at hand. From these mines, the blacksmith is hammering out a New sword of liberty the material comes from all of our battle fields in our national history. These make up the strong wide back part Of the sword the sharp keen edge that is terrifying to behold this material from the Pentagon, Trade Towers, and from our four American commercial airliners filled with Americans. The dross of the terrorists have been skimmed off and purified by our national prayersAnd solemn vows for justice now stands one giant the sum of us all. The sword has just been placed in his hand. Let’s talk about the Sword it cuts both ways-coming and going. The giant holds it flat, moves it back and forth in front of him underneath the land is Pictured perfectly back up on the blade it hums like a dynamo let’s start it from the place the atrocity and carnage occurred I wrote More about Miss Liberty in Imposter you ought to read it one of our greatest minds for freedom and liberty Lincoln said these should Be taught to every child and from every pulpit and school house and every public arena should resound with the truth about thisGreat enterprise and experiment in human government. I also wrote Freedoms Citadel and Fertile ground about Jefferson and the Constitution the reading of them was tepid they mean little in today’s conscious mind but in these very matters freedom live or diesThe blade appears out of the black smoke that stunted and muted Miss Liberty and her awesome record and history here is where Hell left its signature. I will after all add a part of what I wrote in Imposter America proud land of liberty; too long it’s been just a Veneer, freedom you espouse, to have this you must clean prejudice from your house. True greatness finally you will know, when it Shines through all colors, to do this you must rediscover the bedrock of your heritage. Truly believe the words that say "We the People words that shook the elements, only being surpassed at creations stage. To long our apathy has been collaborating with our Enemy’s no more, this challenge is given to restore. Opportunity’s open door let us our energy out pour. That freedoms passion soars, As in the past ******* it tore. Land of light continue, Miss Liberty your lamp burning bright. Oh great nation receive your benediction And knighthood from her continuous burning flame now advance our freedom and liberty through the bright rays of truth that founded This nation the blade shines and burns away all deceit it tells truth and shows our mistakes and so when it passes the white house one Who comes from the fount and central place where Lincoln’s Shadow is so pronounced if Lincoln could rise he would make short order Of the junior senator from Illinois he would Exposé his political views as not true American but a hybrid who speaks a world view not A Central American one his history makes him Espouse thoughts and ideas that are not held by most Americans they are contraire to What the founders envisioned but with Personality and ability to speak well he has made inroads especially in a liberal setting the voters Will realign this error the blade passes on inland it moves across the coal mines of Pennsylvania it stops and hums with a drowning Sound at the site where brave Americans Fought in the sky and died saving many others here is a great place to show the difference in The two different swords battling for Rule in our world today yes they have a sword it is one that beheads their own people or at Times the lives of the innocents must perish to it savagery forged in hell it gleams but with every conceivable power of evil the more They use it the more they destroy they burry themselves in the tangled web that no man can escape from a recent telling of Liberia’s Civil war will cast true light on the sword they wield with such relish one of the Generals in this conflict and let me add here the same is Going to happen in to the drug lords in Mexico in one form or another salvation or destruction from Him who is really in charge so this So called General in Liberia was doing what he did best slaughtering the innocent and helpless two of the nuns ***** and killed with Their three companions had just attended our worship service two days before their deaths. But into this evil spectacle He who is all power and holy spoke general you are nothing more than someone who is being used by the devil and the devil had one other to **** Three hundred people a day add that up to three hundred and sixty five days he did it to keep empowered by the devil but our general Couldn’t get away from those simple but true words he came to the united Pentecostal mission church went to the altar first he lay Down the defiled sword went to a church that preached baptism in the titles instead of Jesus name the bible says if you desire truth on The inward parts you will be led to all truth he argued for six months saying he saw no difference but he called from Nigeria all excited There was a difference God gave him the revelation the bible says Christ is the beginner and finisher of our faith he starts and finishes What he starts this former butcher went to the altar in the mission mentioned repented was rebaptized in Jesus name filled with the Holy Ghost spoke in tongues as the bible said this is the only way to remove the sword from a deceived and dying race born to bloodAnd cruelty because the master liar entered the world as a false religion in the desert an unexplained terrifying light is gleaming As a mirror but this one is shaped as an eagle with its talons inches from the back of a unholy fiend his life is an insult to all eastern people That love their country as we love ours pray that we honor our dead by not making widows and orphans of the innocent. Bin Laden Stand if you can we did not desire blood but you cut open our veins made us replace our loved ones with marble stone we hear a new Sound in the desert, groans of death, and your fixed lot by our God who is true and holy.

The lion mentioned is not the man but the hate and the source of all hate is Satan “Bread corn is bruised” Isa 28:28 Ignatius Martyred in Rome after being taken from Antioch, who is better to speak to our recently martyred people He said God has made me Bread for his elect, and if it be needful that the bread must be ground in the teeth of the lion to feed his children, blessed is the name of The lord a new Christian foundation is being laid and within the walls of this our national home. There is a sacred field with deep Furrows the victims and future military dead the precious seed. Our tears and their sacrifice will water this future harvest, from this Rich grain the baskets of spiritual bread will overflow, we presume not to feed ourselves but our enemies also the Arab world cries from Hunger and evil agents of Satan feed them poison. However we know the great physician who will heal us from this blight.The blade has passed to the end of our land and back prayer alone can keep it pure and sharp and it will devour the enemy of us all the swordSatan wields an ineffective beaten sword if we but pray for truth and light for all.

where was i? right, anywhere but here,listening to some medieval music,i sometimes sit in one place,fade, and then find myself sittingin the same place with a questionon the tip of my tongue: where am i?!

st. michael comes down with a sword...satan rises up with a flaming tongue,does satan lick michael's swordto draw the blood required forrunning the heart factory?

medieval people and their"nuanced" explanation...so many images contra wordscontra literacy of the people outsidethe realm of monks...

satan rises from the depths of hell saying: i wish a socratic dialecticwith god...god replies: michael i will send armedwith swords...who ever said: the quill is mightier thanthan the sword,implied: when the tongue hasto be necessarily silenced? then!

das schwart, das feder, das zunge...

how many definite articles arethere in deutsche? das, der, die? too many or too few?

always with "st." michael armedwith a sword...and satan... armed with only his tongue!i guess, the tongue becomes a tank,while the sword becomes a feather'stickling effect...

angehoben das teufel von der tiefe: und gab sie namen...

(raised the devils from the depths: and gave them names)...

why is satan only armed with a flaming tongue,while "st." michael is armed with a sword?is god, the god-dialectic / theologyso afraid that it has to remain toppedwith unchallenged imagery of sword contra tongue?

satan rose to a depictionwith "st." michael: disarmed... tongue in mouth: which should have beenhis hand, "st." michael descended witha sword... come to think of it,with satan's tongue cut off...it still spoke to "st." michael within hishand... the sword overcame the medium...and so writing was born... once upon a time when satan's tonguein his hand began licking the swordof michael... and? if the contemporariesshould hope to know:writing is the res extensa mediumof res cogitans: writing is an extension of thinking:it's not an invitation to speak...

writing cannot be speaking,however much commentaries you leavebehind...writing is an extension of thinking:it's not an invitation to speak...

it's no disguise... in terms of the depiction...enough of Milton and Dante and...satan came to the summit without his armour without his weapons...the summit of the plateau...tongue in gob and joke in cheek...while "st." michael descended wit a sword and a missing tongue...it would appear that god cut out"st." michael's tongue before his descentwhile arming him with a sword tocut the conversation even shorterthan it was supposed to be, to take place...

the aspired to monotheistic monogamyof king Solomon,to imitate swans... Muhammad's lost enterprise ofthe: greatest harem the world has everseen... sorry... Muo-Mo-Hammie:the macedonian alexander beat you tothe count of 365 concubines...as did genghis khan... so many pakistanis with khanas a surname... your failed harem ambition?compared to the otherwise world "greats"?with the ******* promise of 72 virginspost-mortem? that ship is sinking in my head...muhammad failed in the ambitionof averaging a 100+ concunbine **** fest...so he promised 72 for those that believed inhim... and if he was ever competing withking solomon? look at solomon... he chose monogamy in the end...i guess it's a noble enterprise to come backamong the lizards...to spawn from an egg: from an wombmade external by an egg in the form of a bird...birds: half mammal half lizard... muhammad failed at havingan envious harem... which makes me a little bit enviousof him... compared to the others...he's quiet honest... but if he was illiterate... who the **** wrote the Quran? what's that book, in praise of older women?andrás vajda... who would have written the firstverses (if not the last) of the Quran if notkhadijah **** khuwaylid?

i'm sorry to say: the feeling of conversationsoon turns into a feeling of conversion,me, beer in hand, park, bench,an old pakistani walks up to me...flips out a digital Quran,tries to convert me... opens the book on surah al-baqarah...i point at three words...what are these, i ask?he replies: oh... only allah knows...really?! really?! i ask myself...

so yeah, "god" knows... how was this old pakistani going to convertme, supposing i was simply some european"drunk" sitting on a bench, drinking beer,assuming i was ease target forisis propaganda?!

"god knows"... when it comesto old pakistanis trying to recruit young europeans...god knows ****!

if this old pakistani was seeking an easy targetlike some paedo, he was much mistaken,what does a pumpernickle (has) to do witha windmill?! zilch!i'm not going to exactly crawl outof my walther von der vogelweider: palästinalied that much easier...i won't.... i just think:the yids have tight defencesagainst proselytes... they abhor converts...islam, welcomes them,at their own peril... and there i was thinking thaturdu was "superior" to sanskrit...an old pakistani tells me "god knows"in relation to alif. lam. meem.

i guess the quran has an inbuiltproselyte defence mechanism: in reverse... ask a muslim what alif. lam. meem.means... if they tell you: only god knows...ha ha... hello stupid... is the islamic world playinga jewish game of gematria?are the three letters supposed to representsome sort of "covert" message?A.L.M.? what, based on the hebrew alphabetwhere "a" is not an an A but a consonant(s)akin to ayin and aleph?!the gay genesis?

really? we: the europeans were perhapsthe barbarians in the medieval years,harrowed by the cold... lucky us: lucky me: we did learn to read...so ignorant of the pakis to presumesuch and such...

that we are still unable to readand will fall for the next sort of *******...look at us! we even began to questionchristianity with the unearthing ofthe nag hammadi library wherejesus played chinese whispers withst. thomas!

next time i'll be listening to a camel jockeyor a magic carpet ride aladdini'll ask them: you dehydrated, or something?!oh forget h'america,their evangelical ******* is worthas much as a free microwave or a toaster...

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hell man... i mean my neighbor smokes16 8ths in a spare of the week...

wha? ****... i remember i used to smokean 8th over the week...

yeah... an 1/8... of an ounce...he smokes two ouncesin a week,

gets the **** on discount...but still has to cough upover 100 quid for the stash...

i've seen the inner sleeve -big fan of hunter s. thompson,i suspect... otherwise you wouldn'thave used the second, plasticfilter...

tell you what... don't putthat plastic filter on every cigarette -halve it... or provide two or three...it's reusable - i smoked one of yourplacebo marijuana joints... and then i'm going to smokea red Indian cough-up...

as you see...there are people, and there are "people",there are neighbors, and there are "neighbors",i don't see how the nativescan dictate universal laws of private property ownership...esp. over such... trivial...meaningless... sitting down on a cactus****-naked "problems"...

i hate being mean, i hate telling someone to *******...i really do... i compromised -i stopped smoking cigarettes out of my window... but yesterday's confrontation?over a ******* barbeque... oops... the compromisehas just been revoked...

because? i just can't be bothered tryingto reason with some people... they might as well be put in zoologicalconfinement, and put under observation...but i'd feel sorry for the chimps and other animals, have to share a closeproximity.

The SwordSinging--The voice of the Sword from the heart of the SwordClanging imperiousForth from Time's battlementsHis ancient and triumphing Song.

In the beginning,Ere God inspired HimselfInto the clay thingThumbed to His image,The vacant, the naked shellSoon to be Man:Thoughtful He pondered it,Prone there and impotent,Fragile, invitingAttack and discomfiture;Then, with a smile--As He heard in the ThunderThat laughed over EdenThe voice of the Trumpet,The iron Beneficence,Calling his doomsTo the Winds of the world--Stooping, He drewOn the sand with His fingerA shape for a signOf his way to the eyesThat in wonder should waken,For a proof of His willTo the breaking intelligence.That was the birth of me:I am the Sword.

Bleak and lean, grey and cruel,Short-hilted, long shafted,I froze into steel;And the blood of my elder,His hand on the hafts of me,Sprang like a waveIn the wind, as the senseOf his strength grew to ecstasy;Glowed like a coalIn the throat of the furnace;As he knew me and named meThe War-Thing, the Comrade,Father of honourAnd giver of kingship,The fame-smith, the song-master,Bringer of womenOn fire at his handsFor the pride of fulfilment,Priest (saith the Lord)Of his marriage with victory**! then, the Trumpet,Handmaid of heroes,Calling the peersTo the place of espousals!**! then, the splendourAnd glare of my ministry,Clothing the earthWith a livery of lightnings!**! then, the musicOf battles in onset,And ruining armours,And God's gift returningIn fury to God!Thrilling and keenAs the song of the winter stars,**! then, the soundOf my voice, the implacableAngel of Destiny!--I am the Sword.

Heroes, my children,Follow, O, follow me!Follow, exultingIn the great light that breaksFrom the sacred Companionship!****** through the fatuous,****** through the fungous brood,Spawned in my shadowAnd gross with my gift!****** through, and hearkenO, hark, to the Trumpet,The ****** of Battles,Calling, still calling youInto the Presence,Sons of the Judgment,Pure wafts of the Will!Edged to annihilate,Hilted with government,Follow, O, follow me,Till the waste placesAll the grey globe overOoze, as the honeycombDrips, with the sweetnessDistilled of my strength,And, teeming in peaceThrough the wrath of my coming,They give back in beautyThe dread and the anguishThey had of me visitant!Follow, O follow, then,Heroes, my harvesters!Where the tall grain is ripe****** in your sickles!Stripped and adustIn a stubble of empire,Scything and bindingThe full sheaves of sovranty:Thus, O, thus gloriously,Shall you fulfil yourselves!Thus, O, thus mightily,Show yourselves sons of mine--Yea, and win grace of me:I am the Sword!

I am the feast-maker:Hark, through a noiseOf the screaming of eagles,Hark how the Trumpet,The mistress of mistresses,Calls, silver-throatedAnd stern, where the tablesAre spread, and the mealOf the Lord is in hand!Driving the darkness,Even as the bannersAnd spears of the Morning;Sifting the nations,The **** from the metal,The waste and the weakFrom the fit and the strong;Fighting the brute,The abysmal Fecundity;Checking the gross,Multitudinous blunders,The groping, the purblindExcesses in serviceOf the Womb universal,The absolute drudge;Firing the charactryCarved on the World,The miraculous gemIn the seal-ring that burnsOn the hand of the Master--Yea! and authorityFlames through the dim,Unappeasable GrislinessProne down the nethermostChasms of the Void!--Clear singing, clean slicing;Sweet spoken, soft finishing;Making death beautiful,Life but a coinTo be staked in the pastimeWhose playing is moreThan the transfer of being;Arch-anarch, chief builder,Prince and evangelist,I am the Will of God:I am the Sword.

The SwordSinging--The voice of the Sword from the heart of the SwordClanging majestical,As from the starry-stairedCourts of the primal Supremacy,His high, irresistible song.

1-Establish Lux as a farmer with his brother, father, mother. Show dissatisfaction at a lot in life, yearning for more, however Lux feels compelled to stay with family and help them. Establish a close relationship between the brothers, a good mother/son relationship, though a testy relationship with his father. Strange symbol branded on Lux’s chest, been there since he was a baby, no one is sure what it means- or no one is telling him. This is Lux’s L.S. beginning. Establish also is the world Lux is in, the facts of the ministry and the church, the knights and wars of before.2-Introduce a festival in town with knights from “The Brotherhood” being present, establish them as knights capable of magic and swordplay, “The Brotherhood” knights are taking new recruits at the festival. Wanting to join, Lux goes through the trials and passes, though after a harsh reaction from his father, Lux does not leave with the knights. With Lux out of scene, a conversation between the mother and father should reveal the man is not in actuality Lux’s father, but his uncle, and his brother had been married to Lux’s mother (now his wife) though died fighting in a war between “The Brotherhood” as a member of their ranks, against a rival faction known as “The Order” peak lux’s curiosity and focus on the desire to leave as established in the previous chapter. This and the next chapter are Lux’s “Go The Distance”3-The end of the week long festival nears, and Lux is on a hunting trip with his younger brother, returns and is questioned by his father why he wants to leave so much. The truth of Lux’s true father is revealed, and though Lux’s uncle expected this to convince Lux to stay and not go into danger, Lux is angered rather, and leaves in a hurry to catch “The Brotherhood” knights before they leave. Lux is put under the tutelage of a man who claims to have known Lux’s father, though it is revealed Lux’s little brother followed him, and is taken into the recruit pool as well, despite never going through the testing. Note- perhaps have Lux refuse to go with the knights if his brother is not also offered a spot? Hero’s journey, he needs a moment of hesitation and refusal to go. This should be reflected like Lukes refusal to join ben, or Bilbos refusal of gandalf, but quickly change their minds.4-Training begins the moment they arrive at a camp. Lux and his brother are immediately outfitted with leather armor, dark and gritty in contrast of the shining metal of the rest of the knights. Lux is doing well in training, sword play coming natural, shakey with a bow, and ofcourse a natural talent at magic, (though make a point that in fire spells Lux only manages to start small flames that he can throw, and struggles with healing magic) though his brother is struggling in all aspects and is beat by his trainer. Lux’s trainer urges Lux to ignore it,though Lux finally snaps and challenges the man. The two enter a circle made in the dirt with training swords, and though Lux appears to have the advantage at first, he is quickly beaten and left gasping and ****** on the floor. The trainer leaves Lux there, and soon a hand reaches down to Lux. A female trainee named Ciara picks up Lux and, joined by his brother, the three wander off for more training for the instructors. Introduce Peter, a man deeply infatuated by Ciara, rather than a knight Peter is a Father to the holy church, unable to fall in love and forbidden to marry. Subtle on Peter’s infatuation with Ciara, should really build Peter as a good friend to Ciara,5. Lux, his trainer, CIara, and her trainer are all out in the forest doing patrol after reports that remnants of “The Order” have picked up their pace in activity in the surrounding areas, raiding small towns and taking young men and women as recruits. Lux and Ciara are separated for a time and grow closer through talk and laughter when they see two knights in armor that is shining silver on almost the entire body though the right arm and pec are a scarlet red, drinking water from a stream. Confirming with each other that is the description of “The Order” Ciara says they should find their trainers though Lux charges. Ciara is close behind, catching the two off guard. Both are quickly overpowered through the use of advanced magic from “The Order” but Ciara’s trainer jumps in, kills one, but is killed by the second. As he turns, Lux throws his dagger and hits the man in the eye, killing him. Lux and Ciara carry her trainers body back to camp. Ciara refuses to speak and when greeted at the gate by Peter, she embraces him and cries into his shoulder. Have both Lux and Ciara attempt healing magic to no avail. Have Lux grow frustrated at feeling the ABILITY to heal, but unable to do so.6. Lux is punished for charging, while his trainer is taken to a secret meeting where they discuss what to do with Lux, but out of respect for his father, they keep him in “The Brotherhood”. Lux has not seen Ciara since the incident, though he can see her in the crowd when he is being taken to be whipped, and receives 10 lashes, to Peter’s dismay who recommends either banishment or death. After the punishment, he is cut loose from the posts holding him up and Lux’s brother charges the ground, picking his brother up and taking him to his bed. As they pass Lux manages an apology, but is unsure if she accepts it. Lux is informed she will be trained alongside him. Make Peter do some ******* **** idk. Resenting “The Brotherhood” Lux should vent to his brother about his growing distrust of the situation, asking if his brother has felt the growing gap between what they feel they can do, and what they can do.7. Show training between Lux, Ciara, and brother, distinguish a growing connection between Lux and Ciara, much to Ciara’s surprise and reluctance. Show Lux go into his trainers room while he is absent, and sees a sword on the wall, bearing a strange symbol. Lux trainer will explain that the sword should belong to Lux as it was his fathers, and when it is time he will inherit the blade but for now he must leave the blade alone. Lux asks about the situation behind his father's death. Explain the following: The Brotherhood were not always the knights guarding the royal family, before his birth the royal family was guarded by The Order, who are the reason The Brotherhood practice both swordplay and magic, as the Order are master swordsman and powerful wizards, prolific in blood magic and necromancy. When one member of The Order desired the throne for himself, he split The Order in 2. The Brotherhood worship the Gods, but in his desire and lust for power, the man struck a deal with the old gods, evil barbaric entities who require blood and death as sacrifices for their eternal power. This is Nero, a man that Lux’s father took in and treated as a brother, both being trained as knights for The Order. During the civil war, Nero attacked the Royal Palace and though he was badly defeated, he did **** Lux’s father in the battle. End chapter on this story. This chapter should be shows as Lux is uncertain of The Brotherhood and his trainer, but with the story of his father, he is conflicted. If it is true, then they are just. If it is wrong, how many more lies has he been told?8. Show Lux becoming prolific with a blade and very intimidating magically. When he, Ciara, and his brother are sent on a mission with no trainers for the first time, Lux naturally takes charge. They track knights of The Order down to a cave, where they are tested both physically and magically. Ciara and Lux both protect brother as much as they can, though brother is able to hold his own. They manage to corner one who instead of being taken prisoner, stabbed himself in the stomach after giving an ominous warning. As Lux approaches the body, he sees on the cave wall a crude drawing of a man with the same symbol on his chest as Lux’s, holding a sword with the same symbol as Lux’s fathers, a figure resembling a large black and red dragon behind the man. Dismissing it, Lux tells Ciara and brother to not bother approaching, and the last of the knights are dead. The report back to base, and Lux informs trainer of what happened, leaving out the symbol.9. Word carries out on base that more and more caves are being found with members of The Order, all with strange paintings on the walls. Peter speaks with the knights, explaining he has been praying and granted visions of a large scale battle. Have Ciara grab Lux’s arm at the sound of war, which Peter will notice (important for later) and in a hesitation to prepare for a battle that may or may not come, the commander of the camp demands the trainees be knighted, their proper gear be made, and to meet with the main force.Cut from Lux to Peter alone in a church, praying to the Holy Mother begging for guidance away from the desires of his heart, and in his prayers Peter slowly realizes that he will not give up his desire for Ciara and decides to betray the Brotherhood in hopes Lux may die and he may be able to gain Ciara’s affection. Peter is seen leaving by Lux, though when questioned says he is going for more Fathers to pray and meditate on the matter.10. Peter tracks down members of The Order, informing them that he wishes to give them valuable information, surrendering to them. Peter is taken to the leader of the knights operating in the area, and in exchange for one thing, is willing to tell The Order where The Brotherhood is, where they are going, their numbers, and anything else that will be of use. All he wants is them to make Ciara fall in love with him./ While Peter is doing this, Lux is kneeling in front of his trainer who knights him with fathers sword. (maybe do a crusader knight knighting, this is oath/this is how you remember it) When Lux is handed his father's sword, the cold metal instantly feels warm and the grip adjusts to his fingers and though it looks heavy, appears just the right weight to Lux. Lux is given armor, though when he takes his shirt off he sees the symbol on his chest glowing, same as the symbol on the sword. Trainer only says “magic is a strange thing, boy” and Lux is put into armor and finally leaves the shed a knight after only 2 months of training./back to Peter who is given a potion, told to have Ciara drink it and leave with her before they make their move. As Peter leaves, the leader barks orders to men who address him as Nero. Perhaps instead of Peter getting the potion straight from Nero, have him get it on a witch in the woods who is secretly affiliated with Nero, have to work out how she gets the information from Peter, but she could use magic to contact Nero after. Perhaps part of the agreement is Peter must turn his back on his abandoned faith and be her student and as a test of loyalty he must tell her everything he knows.11. As The Order masses its numbers, knights of the Brotherhood are entering the giant city dedicated to The Brotherhood(Remulus? Romulus?) and Lux is in awe as he sees the a giant palace, and near it a graveyard with tombs. The tombs are the resting place of knights of The Order who gave their lives in service to the royal family, and now knights of The Brotherhood join their numbers. A newly marked grave is standing as a monument to Ciara’s trainer. The day is given to them to explore the city, and Lux/Ciara are alone together. Share a kiss. Witnessing the kiss, Peter comes from the shadows and informs them that curfew is near, and they should be heading back to the castle/as Peter watches the two make way to the castle laughing/holding hands, he heads to a monastery. He kneels before a picture of his god, praying asking to be told what to do. He knows he is a man of faith, so why are lust and desire even capable of entering his heart? He begs for pardon from sin as he sets his heart on giving Ciara the potion.12. Now that the trainees have been knighted and the generals have been informed of Peter’s vision, prepare for war. The inhabitants of the city and many villages around are all pulled into the Castle’s walls, able bodied men and boys are given swords, women and girls find refuge in the newly emptied dungeons (all criminals hung/drafted?) Lux is witness to a battle plan, and overhears that during the last battle at the capitol city, The Order had used dragons to its aid, and though there were no confirmed sightings of dragons now, The Brotherhood should still set up catapults and bastilles on the off chance. Lux finds his brother and Ciara and informs them of what he has heard, though Peter comes and informs them that Lux must just be tired from nerves, and no one has seen a dragon in a generation. End with Ciara stopping a near brawl between the two, and Lux heading to his bed alone, and Peter now with Ciara, when a sound fills the halls. Scouts are reporting a massive army on the outskirts of the city.13. Rain. Silence. Lux, Ciara, and his brother are among the numbers at the front gate. Rain hitting the ground. Hitting armor. Men are vomiting. Peter along with other priests are swinging burning incense between the rows of men, chanting prayers and songs of their god. Pounding. Pounding so hard that when it hits the front gate, the rain flies off the door and hits Lux’s face. Lux looks to his brother. The two nod. Lux looks into Ciara’s eyes. The two kiss. Confess love. The gate is broken open and the war begins with a thunderous roar in the sky, a dragon spewing fire on archers perched on castle walls as troops charge. Lux and the other knights hold their positions with a great clash the two armies finally meet. In screaming and fighting, Lux loses his brother, and The Brotherhood are pushed back, further and further. Lux manages to grab Ciara’s arm and the two run to a set of stairs going down to one of the dungeon entrances to warn the others that they are losing, when the dragon knocks over a giant pillar, stones hitting the two. Lux stays conscious from the first hit, and sees Peter approaching an unconscious Ciara with the potion in hand. Stuck beneath rubble, Lux watches as Peter pours it in her mouth and wakes her with a kiss. Begging Ciara for help frantically, she walks away with Peter, and as Lux cries out for his brother, more stones hit, causing him to go unconscious. 14. Lux awakens in an unfamiliar setting, on his knees. His hands shackled to the wall, his armor and sword feet in front of him, a man standing behind them. The man asks if Lux knows who he is. Looking up, Lux can see from the torches a tired face. Shaking his head, the man informs Lux, “I am Nero, commander of The Order, Captain of the Conquered Reaches, and rightful heir to the throne. And you are Lux. My nephew,” Nero smiles, touching Lux’s face. Accusing Nero of killing his father, Nero softens his eyes at Lux and stops moving. A look of sadness. “Your father's mistake is the single most regrettable accident in my life,” tells Lux more and more about his father. Informs Lux why the symbol is on his chest. Its magically bonded to the blade. It makes blood magic more powerful. Nero then informs Lux that his father had found a dragon egg just like Nero did, as Nero pulls the egg from his robes, shiney and black with streaks of scarlet. Nero offers Lux out of this cell, and he will gladly show him the ways of blood magic and make sure that Peter pays for his betrayal of the other knights. “I do not find The Brotherhoods newest members traitors, how can they betray a cause they never were offered? But how do you think we knew you were going to be there when we did? All of this has been for you, Lux.” with a wave of his hand, the shackles fall off Lux’s wrists and he falls forward. Reaching to the egg, Lux hesitates slightly, looking down and seeing his reflection in the water. With a wave of his hand, Nero projects the image of Peter kissing Ciara deeply. “That passion she gives him should be yours. I cannot create love. Only transfer it with a potion. When peter described the man who took his beloved, I should have realized. But together, I can rid the potions course and Peter will pay, Lux,” and as Lux watch Ciara enter Peter’s bed, he firmly grabs the egg, which begins to shake and crack in his hand, emerging a tiny dragon. Nero’s past: Nero will portray his story as such: He discovered that Lux’s mother is the illegitimate daughter of the queen. When Nero went to tell Lux’s father, he was stopped by the queen who attempted to have him killed, for if it was discovered that her late husband had an offspring, she would have a claim to the throne. In the ongoing fight, Nero claims he accidentally killed the queen and was discovered by Lux’s father. The fight was a misunderstanding and he was never able to tell him the truth of his soon to be (pregnant) wife. The split of The Order were those who believed Nero and those horrified at the death of the queen. Nero claims the royals betrayed him and those who followed the truth. Show a refusal to believe at first, though as his imprisonment lasts, and he goes over it again and again in his head, for weeks as Peter gets further away with Ciara, left with visions of Peter and Ciara making love, his Nero pleading with Lux’s father, and the conflict. Ambiguous if this is actually true or just indoctrination.15. Lux’s training begins immediately. He is placed in the middle of a circle, men attacking from all directions and must fight them off with his blade and newly learned blood magic. Slicing his palm before gripping his blade, the warm metal now burns hot in Lux’s hands, and he drops the blade. Scolded with beatings and lashings, Lux learns how to embrace the pain. Magic flows through him stronger than ever as he adapts. Fire flows from his tips when before he could only manage an ember. He heals fatal wounds when before he could hardly manage a small cuts and broken bones. Lux is routinely beaten and whipped, his dragon growing and watching all the while. Weeks go by. Lux concentrates only on killing Peter and revenge. Pain, anger, and of course blood fuel blood magic to its extremes. 16. Lux’s brother is brought into a small room with other generals who managed to escape the battle of the capitol. He is questioned if he has heard from Lux, Peter, or Ciara as their bodies were never found. All the remaining forces are falling back to the capital, where a final stand will once again be made. Lux’s brother is told he may visit home one last time and must report to the capital in no more than 5 days, and his trainer will accompanying him/Lux is kneeling once again before Nero, though he feels the sword tap either shoulder as he is knighted into the brotherhood. He is given shiney armor and as he puts it on, is instructed to place his sliced palm on the opposite shoulder and watches as his blood flows into the metal, turning that arm and shoulder scarlet red. He is officially in The Order. Lux is tasked with one task to prove his loyalty. **** his stepfather and attempt to convince his mother to come swear loyalty to nero if she refuses, **** her too. If he does that, when he returns his dragon will feed on the personal sacrifice and be ready for battle, and in return Nero will make sure both Peter and Ciara are waiting for him. “It will be done, Lord Nero.” show conflict in Lux if he is truly willing to do all of this, and conflict on loyalty to Nero. The Dragons growth and power is connected to Lux’s ability in blood magic. The more anger, hate, and pain he puts into his abilities, the stronger the dragon will become. 17. Chapter starts with Lux standing outside his old house in the early hours of the morning, the sun peeking out of the mountains but being quickly covered by storm clouds. As darkness settles over the brief light illuminating the house. Lux enters the house. His stepfather enters the room hearing the door open but is grabbed by the throat.during the fighting, Lux manages to strangle his step father and throws his body to the door as his mother is running into the room. As she surveys the situation, there is a cry from the door, and Lux’s brother and trainer are standing in the door, sword in hand. Lux begins to unsheathe his sword but his mother moves between them, talking to the brothers. Lux demands to know from his trainer if what Nero said is true and that his mother is the rightful heir. Confirming Nero’s story partially, though claims that Nero attempted to blackmail the queen with the knowledge of the heir to gain more power. Lux tries to persuade his mother to join him and come be with Nero, that his father would have wanted this. When she refuses, he explains that she would not understand what he HAS to do to end this war, and when he is done the conflict will be resolved and order restored. Argument between lux and brother over oaths broken. Mother approaches Lux, touching his face tenderly speaking softly watching as her son is breaking. She offers him to leave the conflict entirely and to just live home with her, though as she turns to face Lux’s brother, Lux stabs her. Gasping she looks back to Lux, touching his face once more, “You look so much like your father in that armor” Lux , trainer and brother fight, Lux leaves his brother unconscious in the house quickly, though he kills his trainer outside, taking the bodies with him back to Nero.18.Lux returns to the agreed upon spot to meet Nero, but is instead met by Ciara, who in his confusion and hesitation desperately tries to convince her to leave with him when out steps Peter with a staff in hand, who has now learned the magic of the old gods. When Lux raises his hand, his dragon lands behind him with a mighty roar. With a smirk, peter does the same, and a white and blue dragon lands behind him, a roar just as mighty. The dragons take to the air, circling and roaring, spitting blue and black flames at one another as Lux and Peter fight to the death. Just as Lux manages to defeat Peter after taunting and back and forth, there is a loud crash as Lux’s dragon lands on the other teeth in its neck, ripping its head off entirely. Ciara comes to her senses immediately, seeing Lux in armor of The Order standing over a wounded and ****** Peter, the blood spraying on them. Stepping toward Ciara, Lux is surprised when she steps back in fear. Allowing her to leave, Lux watches as she sprints away. The conversation between Lux and Ciara should be that of both trying to convert the other. When no understanding is made between the two, it is Lux’s love for Ciara that allows her to leave, she sprints to the horses and makes her way back to The Brotherhood. Turning back to a wounded Peter, Lux raises his sword when his eye catches sight of a faint glow on Peter’s chest. Kneeling to rip the man's shirt out of the way, Lux finds the same symbol that is on his sword and own chest. Peter is Lux’s lost twin.

Will add more, unsure how to end the first book. (Have a trilogy in mind)

When the foghorn blows, I know they want war,My power will unleash itself, my sword will slay, no matter who they are,Be it my mother or my brother,For me, there is no such thing as fighting for each other…

I believe that in very corner there is anger and hate,Talking about my sword, it you shall rate,It is of fine diamond, sharp as the sharpest stone,Swift enough to slice an apple in the air, and sharp enough to slice off any bone!

I watch with glee as the silver knights roar out the battlecry, I watch as they grip their mighty swords, and start dashing, running to me, wanting to die,They gallop on their horses, the ground shaking and trembling beneath their mighty army,Maybe there is too much of a score, but surely to one knight I will make a death all charmy…

I grip my fine sword, as my eyes pierce the view, my head covered by my hood,My face darkened by the hide covering my head, I'm death itself, standing on these lands for up to no good,My green luminescent pupil-less eyes judge that of the knights there is a one-hundred four score, As I stand there, dressed in my black hide, my fur boots, I remembered how I used to say, "The more tough it is, the more gore…"

Suddenly, with a blink of an eye, we are face to face,The horses shriek at me, as I leap at the knights,A sword pointed at my heart, an arrow at my head, and swinging for my head, there is a rusty iron mace,I grin, knowing that ****** will I make the nights!!

The eyes lock for a moment, the moment tenses,There is anger in every heart as we stare, not just give nervous glances,The time freezes, it's like in a slow-motion,And suddenly, I basically activated an anger-rage potion!!

My jaws snap open, and air ripples around as my roar that is heard thousands of miles away explodes out of my jaws,The knights' ears ring from the loudness of my roar,The diamond sword tighter I grip with my finger-like claws,And swing to my right at lightning speed, slicing the heads of the knghts' being four!

Blood gushes in a circle, while I give them no sign of good-luck,My sword slashing, the clash of metal, my sword stabbing each knight like a duck,Piercing the skin with my sword, I rip out their intestines with a flick of my hand,The arrows zip at me, the arrowheads piercing my skin like it is sand…

I feel my bones snapping from the arrows, but pain doesn't brings me down,Pain only makes me more angry and stronger, me it doesn't drown,I'm a ghoul whose strength is not explained,As I slice the knights and dodge the arrows, I remembered how when I fought, the blood rained!!

I stab a silver knight, driving my sword right through his ribs, ending his pain and troubles, then flick my hand and cut off one's head,An arrow pierces my temples, but yet I'm still not dead,Dodging swords and arrows, I slam my fist on the ground,The air ripples around me, and the air pushes off the knights and arrows around!

My cloak swooshes from the force of the air,I'm made of tough muscles and skin, fair?You, an army of two-thousand-four knights, versing one thing that looks like a ghoul,I'm too powerful, and already a thousand knights are slayed, ye fool!!

I came here for diamond, treasures and gold,I'm a thing, I have no age, so I'm neither young nor old,I'm empty inside due to my powerful god-like strength, making me heartless and cold,As I stand there with muscles tense, blood pooled on the grass, I watch the knights standing, mighty and bold…

I call them warriors, I call myself a ghoul,As I get back in battle, I slice off one's arms, making him from pain just drool,He falls on the ground as my sword finds his head, the fall breaking his rib bone, As I slice off heads and arms, legs and waists, dodging arrows and receiving blows of swords, I speak in a demonic voice, "You ain't alone!!!!"

Slicing bodies, smashing bones with my fists and legs, My sword creating a gushing fountain of blood,Smashing ribs like they are shells from eggs,You are fighting someone, who in war is a god!!!

As the arrows slice right through my skin from the force of the archers' metal bows,I squat, my legs bented as I dodge all the blows,Suddenly I push off with my legs, zooming into the sky,The air ripples around, pushing back the knights paces away, as I zoom to the stars, up so high…

I gradually slowen down cause of the gravity, as I start falling down through the mist,I face the Earth as I start zooming and searing through air back down, my diamond sword ahead of my head, clinched by my ****** fist,I see the army of a thounsand, gawking and looking up at the speeding comet in the sky,"Here I come to gain my gold and make you know only one word, 'die'!!!"

My sword finds the ****** ground, as the ground explodes in a tremendous explosion and boom,The flame unleashes and covers the sky, covers the lands, bringing upon the army a burning doom,From space one could see how a big chunk and piece of Earth has exploded with fire,Few minutes pass, and the as the smoke and fire clears, the victory is given to the hooded figure, giving others what they deserve and need to desire…

Slayed is the army of two-thousand and four,It was rather too quick, I wish for more,At least mine is all the treasures and the ore,There was no other way to gain my treasures, so I gained them with gore…

I stand in the crater, formed by my victorious fatality,If they want to steal my gold, they deserve such a brutality,I'm death itself, and a ghoul,If you spot me, remember to give what I want and don't be a fool………

-Mishka Wayz

This is created by me, yes. It was hard to do this but at least I did it. This is a fantasy which I created.

The ghoul, is a guy, but he is so sinful and evil, and full of darkness and gore, that he calls himself a ghoul. He thinks he is a thing. But anyway, his name is Scardebego Whipsidol. Yes, I created the name and poem myself and everything is created by me. Sorry if there are any typos or it doesn't makes sense. Also, Scardebego's strength is unexplained, and he is selfish for treasures. He slays anyone who dares touch his gold. He had a mother btw, and a family, but he was cursed by his greed for gold and treasures, that's why he killed his family and that's why he is so powerful and god-like, but sadly, dark and monstrous.

He can breath underwater for 78 hours until death (3 days) (He has fish gills also)He can burn alive for 78 hours until death He is dead only after more than a billion arrows (The poem takes place in the times of LOTR, but if it was bullets, he would die after a million of them)He dies in acid and lava and mercury after 78 hoursHe can live without his body parts for 78 hours (Head, legs, arms) (Also if his chest is torned open)His full speed is the speed of lightningHis voice can be demonic and deep at times, and sometimes he can roar so loud your ears will shriek from the loudness that you won't be able to hear after a time (You might go deaf)He sometimes doesn't speaks at allHis bones only break if he falls from the height of the moonIf his bones is broken, he can easily snap it back into place and his bone heals over timeHis eyes shine at random moments, but mostly his face is darkened by the hood, making a hollow black-like void

It's not the docile who are the most peacefulIt's not the quiet who make the best mothersAnd it's not the pilgrims who make the finest believersFor, the blade is not the only part of the sword

Only part of the sword, ooh hoo....

It's not the poets who pose the deepest questionsIt's not the enemy that you have to fearAnd it's not enough people who live in cleanest conscienceFor, the string is not the only part of guitar.

Only part of guitar, ooh hoo....

Refrain:Beware even the blunt side of the swordBeware even the blunt side of the sword!Oh, you know, the blade is not the only part of the sword.Only part of the sword, ooh hoo....

It's not the animals who are the uncivilised onesAnd it's not in the light that you get to know yourselfAnd it's not up to you to decide the life that I liveFor the heart is not the only part of me.

Only part of me......

It's not the well-spoken who speak the most wise wordsIt's not the sufferers alone who feel the pain and anguishAnd it's not the have-it-alls who really have it allAnd the Eiffel Tower's not the only thing in Paree.

Only thing in Paree.....

And you know, the blade is not the only part of the sword....Oh, you know, the blade is not the only part of the sword.

.The barrel hit the bottomwith a sound something like 'thwelp'.The first was a 'thud' on mud,the second definitely a 'Help!'.Slim rolled from the wreckagedoing his best to look nonchalant,and failing.Its hard to look casualsprawled face down in the dirt,a help speech bubble floating overhead.But he did his bestpicking himself up slowly,no-one else was going to do it.Remarkably, or not, he was unhurt.

Kelm found a rib-cage,the remains of a large fox,and he was delighted.Do barbarians dream of culture nights?Kelm had, and he liked hitting things.He had lost all interest in fishing,in Bruce, in dolls, in girls,even with the story he was in.Because now he was, as stated, delighted.He had his very ownEx-why-low-fone.

She reached the bottomblind panic in her open eyes.She saw the figure of a manpicking himself up slowly.“Poet!” she shouted at him.“No” Slim said off-handedlythough he had a few select words.“Then … I've killed him” she wailed“Badly?” asked Slim“No. Rather well actually. He's dead”.Then she spied the swordstuck fast in a rock, at a jaunty angle.Aesthetically pleasing in fairy tales.And a tiny figure grimly holding on,reached up for a better grip,touching the Green stone in the hilt.Jerrica and Slim were blinded by a flash.

The tingling increasedand the sword felt powersurge through its lengthand explode in a bright light.The connection was complete.The sword sneezed.It knew him, he knew it.Neither of them particularly liked it.

The moment he touched the stonehe felt the tingling feelingand he felt the connection hitlike a brick wrapped in wool.His head exploded in pure light,the sword sneezedand his future was sealed.He felt so powerful and … elastic.

“What can you see?” shouted Slim.“Nothing” Jerrica replied“Which way is it going?” Slim asked.They had sunspots, flash-spots,dancing on, in and through their eyes.They both needed a *** ***.But as vision cleareda shape, a shadow, a form, a man,greeted their returning sight.

The poet stretched and kept on stretching.He took stock, he looked great.From 6 inches to 6 footin a matter of moments,he had grown up.He took a look around him.Jerrica and Slim were gawping at him.The sword felt warm in his hand.And very smug.He was a sword wielding poet,he spoke.

Her body was telling her what boys were for,but her mind was really not quite sure,and what if there was no known cure,but he did make her think thoughts impure.

Seeing his effect upon Jerricahe smiled in that Poet's flirtatious way.She blushed even more.“What is its name? Slim piped in.“What?” the Poet asked.“The sword, what's its name?Fairy tale swords have to have a name”.

Tink, tinky, ******, tong, tung.Kelm hit the bones with a stick.Each cracked bone had its own tonebut lacked volume.He used a bigger stickand invented bone-shaker music.He even became famouswith his own backing bandThe Clandestine Trolls.

He held the swordand asked it its name.It maintained silencein an embarrassed sulk.“Aw c'mon” crooned the Poet.Silence replied.“Come to think of it” said Jerrica“what's your name Poet?”.That got him right in the logics.He looked back in baleful silence.The sword chuckled.

The singing bowl woke up,aware of the presence of Magick,it started to gently hum.The sword started to hum.With its own resonanceaware of the presence of Magick.

Startled Jerrica stumbledfalling through the waterfallthat had with immense interestbeing watching proceedings.Her arm flailedand knocked the small plinth.Jewel encrusted, humming, alive,the bowl landed upside downon her head.And the connection was made.Tingling Jerrica, tingling bowl.The sword joined inwith a song of joyful union.Quick as a flashJerrica was up on her feetsmoothing down her attire.A princess neither flounders nor trips.

The Poet had had his hand extendedto help her to her feet.She looked and smiled'thanks but I'm ok' at him.Their eyes locked,their hearts threw away the key.

Slim got the familiar feeling ofI don't need to be here.He looked at the smashed barreland thought philosophically'something to tell the grand-kids!'He headed for a tavern, any tavern, anywhere.

Cutting through devils flesh, bones and marrows,Healing sorrow, it's wielders never cold or shallow,All Divinity or Nature destroyed is healed and harrowed,Behold, the gift of the Goddess: The Sword of Shadows.

Despite cold hearts making our world a burning hell,Despite many angels, light bearing souls, who somehow fell,Despite those taking pleasure from greed, envy and sin,Warm Hearts realize The Goddess is indeed our kin,

Despite endless waves of lives and death,Despite moments when even good has lost life and breath,Despite the sinuous evil and creeping dark,One receives his Sword when Healthy with Halo and Heart.

For a Sword Bold of times Old, your heart must stay warm,Even when anger for a purge starts and your mind 's a storm,May every plot against Humanity forever fold or foil,A Sword waiting for you, end all turmoil.

With Knowledge gained either thought the art or craft,Sword of Shadows, Avenging all pains, even future and past...Only tears shed are that of Love and Joy, no remorse,To allow our dear Goddess in our world, All rejoice.

A Sword of Shadows for Hearts Brave and True,Our Goddess Loves all, and has Sword for you.

It was very late, and Lucian had just gotten back from his assignment. he unlocked the door to his house and set his things down on the bed. he removed his shirt and removed the bandages on his chest. that demon put up quite a fight... he put on a robe and decided to get some rest. he set his things down on the floor next to him and hung his sword by the bed. he exhaled deeply and relaxed, finally back in the comfort of his own home. sleep quickly enveloped him and he began to dream.******Lucian was woken from a deep sleep by the sound of his door breaking down. Two massive angels shrouded in black cloaks stepped inside his room as Lucian scrambled to his feet, feeling a sudden chill beneath his simple white robe. One of the angels spoke, "Lucian, Elite Angel number 373-14, you are under arrest for high treason, grand theft, and ******."Lucian was dumbfounded at the accusation. "What on heaven are you talking about?!"the guard-angels grabbed the warrior-angel and dragged him out of his house and onto the streets where a small crowd had gathered. They escorted him to the capitol, which wasn't far away. Lucian gazed up at the massive black monolith before him.He was immediately sent to the rooftop, where the Punisher was waiting. Lucian desperately tried to explain. "I've been set up!! Please let me go! I've done nothing wrong!!"The angel to his left looked at Lucian in disgust. "Quiet, you."He reached to Lucian's throat and he felt a massive bolt of electricity course through his body. He collapsed in their arms and blacked out for a moment.He couldn't say anything; he had a sign of silence on his throat. He blacked out again and when he woke he was on his knees in front of the punisher. His hands were bound behind his back and he was held by a multitude of chains and braces. The guard-angel touched his throat and the seal of silence was removed. "elite angel Lucian, number 373-14, you are charged with high treason against the holy city, grand theft of a holy artifact and the murders of 7 holy officials, as punishment-""I didn't do any of those things!!!""SILENCE!! There is evidence that places you at the scene.""What-""your punishment, you will lose your wings," Lucian gasped and tears formed in his eyes. "...and will be given the Mark of Eternal torture.""No! Not the Mark!! Please no!!"The punisher stepped forward and drew his slender sword. As he stepped forward, Lucian squirmed and fought against his bindings but to no avail. "God help me!""How dare you speak the lord's name, criminal!" the punisher slashed at Lucian's throat, grazing it and leaving a long, bleeding cut. Lucian groaned and said, "No... No... Please..."the punisher stepped to Lucian's side and raised the sword. Lucian's tears came and began hyperventilating. "No, NO, NOO!!!"The punisher brought the sword down and Lucian screamed in agony as one of his wings fell to the ground. Lucian was in so much pain, he wished he could die right then, right there. He was crying now, tears of sorrow and pain. "No, please, I beg you! Have mercy!"For some reason the punisher then sheathed his sword. "Fine, you may keep your remaining wing.""th-thank-" he was cut off as the punisher knelt down and grabbed Lucian's throat. He screamed again as he felt an intense burning. He continued to cry out as the punisher released him but the burning remained, slowly spreading over his entire body with such intensity that he lost consciousness multiple times. after an excruciatingly long torture, the burning ceased, and Lucian saw that it had etched runes and twisting lines over his whole body, almost his whole body, it had left his head and hands untouched. His voice had turned into a hiss and he tried to speak. he was unbound and he reached back to touch where his left wing had been, there was only a stump left."Lucian, you are hereby renounced of your warrior status. Get him out of my sight." Lucian was escorted outside, where the guardians left him stranded in the street. He blacked out and felt himself being picked up and carried somewhere else.************"he's heavy" thought the angel. He carried the limp body off the streets and through alleys, to an abandoned complex not far away. "Melinda!" he called. A slender young angeless came from the shadows."Who on heaven is this, Ven?!"Ven looked around and said, "not here... Let's get inside."he carried the angel inside and set him down on the dimly lit bed. He was still out cold. Ven sighed and said, "Remember that trip I took to the holy city?""Yes of course.""Things happened there... the Network had me do some things..."she narrowed her eyes. "What type of things?""i-i had to steal some artifacts...and some officials got killed.""WHAT?!?!""i didn't get caught! But... i-i panicked, i blamed it on... On him..."melinda was speechless," i-i cant...""melinda... Please...""no, i cant deal with this anymore, i'm leaving.""wait!" "no, ven. Figure this out on your own." and she disappeared.Ven sighed and looked over at the one-winged angel."i'm sorry"the angel stirred slightly but didnt wake. Ven looked at the stump where the angel's wing should have been, and the scars that lined his body."i need to take him to the Network... Maybe, maybe then i can finish what i started... And give this angel what i stole from him... I have to take him to the Holy One..."he closed his eyes for a moment, then,"i promise, you will get your wing back." and he fell asleep.**********Lucian woke up as parts of his body burned fiercly. He cried out and writhed in pain. Soon the burning became a simmer, but it still hurt. lucians heart was beating rapidly and he was exhausted. He replayed last night's adventure. He glanced over his shoulder and as expected, he didnt see his wing. he could feel the blood caked on his back and he felt weak when he tried to get up. He fell and caught himself on the table. "wait a moment... Where am i?!" he frantically looked at his surroundings. He saw another angel asleep in a chair and a doorway behind him. The door looked weak but lucian wasnt sure he could do anything in his weakened state. "i have to try..." he ran, or rather stumbled toward the door and managed to break it down. He fell down outside and was temporarily blinded by the sunlight. He managed his way into the street, where the angels looked on in confusion. "i'm... thisis my street..." he hobbled over to his house and stepped inside. nothing had been touched since last night. "i'm not going to be able to find work... I'm not going to be able buy food.. agh! What am i going to do!" he sat on the bed, his head in his hands. he looked over to the wall, where he had his warrior blade hanging just in case. He grabbed his bag and packed some clothes. He changed into his finer dress clothes that he used on formal occasions. He grabbed his bag and put the sword on his belt. "i wish it didnt have to come to this..." he pushed on a spot on the wall and it slid away. Inside the compartment were his warrior armor and weapons. He took off the suit jacket and grabbed his vest. he put various weapons in their spots and shut the wall. He put the suit-jacket back on and buttoned it to conceal the vest. He felt energized and ready for anything. That was until he turned and saw the angel from the complex. "where do you think You're going?""who are you?"the angel looked amused and said, "you can call me Ven.""well, Ven, i'm going to find the one who set me up, and i'm going to do what he did to me."ven looked frightened. "why dont you come with me."lucian didnt trust this ven. "i'm not going with anyone." and he dove through the window. He sprinted down the street, the bag and his sword held firmly in his hands. "i need money, i need food... I need to find him."***********after all these years of loyal service, after all he'd done, he'd been thrown out without trial, revoked his warrior status, and now Lucian was going to find whoever had done this to him, and he was going to make him pay. he was a fallen angel, and he had nothing to lose.lucian was perched on the top of the church spire, contemplating where to start his search. *the evidence.. what evidence...?"i'll start with the judges chambers..."lucian looked to the north, where the monolith towered over the city. he jumped from roof to roof as he neared the building. i'll do whatever i have to... anything to clear my name. different parts of his body started to burn, and the others began to cool off.the mark... its burning, it's going to keep burning...he cried out and fell from the roof he was on. he hit the alley hard enough to break bone, but he happened to land on his wing, cushioning his fall, only a little bit though.this mark is going to **** me someday... he checked his wing and brushed off the dirt. he folded the wing flat against his back and sat up. he got back on his feet and continued to the monolith.will i have to live with this mark forever?*************(one day later)"GET BACK HERE!!! STOP THAT MAN!!!" lucian was on the run. he found exactly what he was looking for, now he needed to find more information concerning the artifacts and the theif. but first he had to get away. he was turning corners and sprinting like a madman, but he couldnt escape the Detainers. then he heard a voice, "One Wing! over here!"lucian looked towards where he heard the voice and saw an Angeless beckoning for him to come. "follow me!"lucian reluctantly followed, winding through abandoned buildings and finally ducking behind an old counter. after a few minutes of silence, the woman said, "okay, we're clear. i'm Elora.""lucian.""oh... you're THE One-wing-angel..."lucian looked down at the ground. "yeah... that's me.""you were an elite, a warrior angel, weren't you?""yeah, but then i was set up and now i'm an outcast...""you were set up?""yeah, i was. i had everything i ever wanted, why would i need to commit those crimes? i was loyal, and trusted by everyone. and i swear that i will find whoever set me up...""and then what?" elora seemed to be waiting for something."i'm going to do to him what he did to me.""what did he-" elora was cut off by lucian as he cried out. "what's wrong?!""the mark.... of eternal torture...""oh my gosh... i didnt know...""its nothing... i'm used to it..."he took off his suit jacket and elora gasped when she saw his scars. she didn't seem to notice the vest of weapons or the sword at his side. "this is...""...the Mark..."she grimaced as she saw them and said, "i'm sorry...""but why?""because, i was going to turn you in..."lucian was on his feet immediately. "what?!""wait!! i'm not going to... not after seeing what they did to you...""how can i be sure i can trust you?!"elora looked down at her feet and said, "you cant... but i can get you out of the city...""you can?"************Lucian was still finding it hard to trust Elora, but he stuck with her anyway. She took him away from the city and was about to turn back. Something inside Lucian wanted her to stay. "Wait! Don't leave. Come with me to the holy city."She seemed hesitant but willing, "i-ive never been to the holy city....""It's an amazing place, quite a sight to see."She took a moment to think and nodded, "I'll go with you."Lucian smiled and walked forward. After long hours of relentless walking, Elora asked," how far do we have to travel?""A few more hours of walking..."Elora sighed and said, "Alright..."Lucian glanced over at her and saw that she was tired. "We should rest."Elora and Lucian got off of the path ad took shelter beneath some gild-trees. "Elora, go ahead and rest up." she reluctantly slept, but she was glad to, they had been traveling all day.Lucian sharpened his blades and meditated while she slept.Lucian prayed, like he had always done every morning. He had vowed not to let his becoming an outcast interfere with his routine. After he was finished, he sighed and glanced over at Elora; she was fast asleep. He then glanced at the sky and saw dark clouds quickly closing in. Lucian didn't want to wake Elora but he wanted to get her out of the rain. He set his suit jacket and weapons vest next to her and he extended his wing over her just as the rain began to fall. he was pleased to see that the rain would not touch the sleeping angel. On the other hand, Lucian was vulnerable, but he didn't mind. He would rather shelter Elora than himself. Lucian ignored the rain and decided to doze for a while.***********Elora woke up as a cold wind blew. She rubbed the sleep from her eyes and saw the millions of raindrops in front of her. it took her a moment to realize that she was dry. she glanced over and saw that Lucian was soaking wet and had his wing extended over her. "You should have woken me, Lucian." she extended one of her wings over him as he shivered."th-thanks, e-elora." she could tell he was freezing because even the feather's above her were shivering. she decided to do something to repay his kindness."come closer, we can share body heat." suddenly the feathers stopped shivering, they became rigid, as if lucian was surprised... apparently he was."really?""yeah, its the least i can do." she sat closer to him and put an arm around him. his skin was cool to the touch and his muscles were tense, but they soon relaxed, as did the feathers above her. he soon stopped shivering and the rain stopped falling.

Up on a feathered duvet a man conceding defeatTo the Sunday that had just begunReeking of last night’s sweat, smoke and self-deceitThreads of reality so rapidly un-spun

All that he promised himself to accomplish this dayAll that stuff to be tossed in the binProcrastination rearranges plans or lets them decay And all because of his love for gin

Amnesia of last night’s antics plants the seeds of guiltShame shall be his shadow todayEnter a recurring thought... a sword driven to its hiltPiercing pain added to his dismay

Rusted cogs of cognition screeched slowly into action"A cure" he grumbled "A cure"Wearily off the bed searching for medicinal satisfactionTo make last night less obscure

The stark bright light of the bathroom fried his visionBut as his senses normalizedHe stared in the mirror shocked, BANG! In a collisionMouth agape and paralyzed

Finger painted on his forehead, with what must be blood G U I L T YFrom down stairs somewhereA woman's laughMocking Fear took its grip quick

A sword driven to its hilt

Part 2 of 6a sword driven to its hilt

Arctic chills froze his spinePick axes hacked his mind Tongue pickled in brineSuffocated and confinedHeart beat pounding Breathing short and quickTerror was aboundingThroat swallowing a brick

Staring at his reflection . . . G U I L T YUnable move any limbEven for his protectionReturn of memory grim . . . a sword driven to its hilt

Back to the bed room to search for his phoneTo make contact with the real worldFrom down stairs came that exact same laughEvery hair on his body tightly curledThe phone was nowhere to be found upstairsAgain that tormenting laughterHe called out "Who is it?" but only silence repliedThen that laugh again soon after"WHO ARE YOU?!" he demanded to knowArming himself with a cricket batTentatively descending the sweeping staircase Noticing the post on the door mat The newspaper informed him it was MondayConfused, frightened he ran outsideA burnt pile of his clothes lay in front of his door He yelled but only the laughter replied

Then through the dining room bay-windowSitting at the table as if a patient guestA gruesome wide eyed greying corpse of a man A sword driven in his head and out his breast

In the dead man’s hand a glowing phoneThe source of the tormenting laughNot thinking, our man rushed in to take itThe phone flashed "maintenance staff"

Every sense heightenedSickened and frightenedFeeling he was being observedPart of a wicked game Driving him insaneBut so far he had been preservedAs he answered the phoneHe knew he was not alone"Hello sir... I hope I haven't disturbed"------------------------------------------------------­-----------

The sun dipped behind the poplar trees standing straight He orders "A Churchill martini" trying not to sound irateGiles watched her stirring, stirring as in a hypnotic state

Zamira presented a chilled, frosted Riedel martini glass to him brimming to the top with Gilpins Westmorland extra dry ginThe sun slowly sank behind trees as the drink loosened his limbs "You may both leave, till Tuesday" He said to Zamira and her twinLiliana (the cook) and the butler were often dismissed at his whimThey sped off in their green MG, off to the Slaughtered lamb inn

Giles raised his glass to the bobbing full hunters moonWaiting was now over, the others would be here soonFirst a pinch of Peruvian sniffed from a little silver spoon

This day had been prepared in detail for nearly a yearOne final act of courage and tenacity he must engineerAll hushed except the sound of large cars drawing near

Four black Jaguars and a white refrigerated van

Crunched over the gravel drive towards (our man)

Giles Bradshaw-Behran stood still.

It had began.

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Part 4 of 6

three years earlier

The Gallows and Noose

"This, THIS! I'm so tired of all THIS!"Blurted Giles as Zamira dressed his wristsPathetic! (She thought) A dismal attemptThen left the room concealing contemptGiles just stared at the

drip

drip

drip

dripping of the morphine Candle light danced on the wallsThe demons sank back into the shadowsGiles returned to the wombBasking in weightless warmthComfortably apatheticNumb

The drudgery of the next day unfurled As Giles accepted defeat around noonSomething had to be done about life That something had better happen soon

He brunched in his office and so began his searchAll that dayand nightthat week That month

Deeper into the cavernous "dark web"seeking any answer to end his despairbut every search became a cul-de-sac No doors opened for this millionaireNo doors would openAll remained firmly lockedSitting in his office chairFeverishly typing as he rockedHe rocked as he typedHe swivelled as he clickedSearching for somethingThat he was less able to predict

But that something found himAnd sent him an invitationExplaining that they had been watchingSeeing his frustrationUnderstanding his world viewMay he could understand theirsBut before he were to be accepted He must climb down the seven stairsHe Must Climb Down The Seven StairsDis­tant from the blinding lightCast yourself from the hallowsEmbrace darkness embrace nightTake the Noose and the Gallows.

The mouse pointer hovered over options "Yes" and "No"His heart beat quickenedBut then came the red glow of two laser beams from directly behindcircling the yes optionFrom past the windows' opened blind"Yes" and the two red dots disappearedThe wheels were put in motionHis future was now commandeeredA force that seemed greater than himChanged the rules and took controlEmbers deep inside of him flickered Re-igniting the coals of his dark soul

The seven steps awaited him...What ever could they be?

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part 5 of 6

The Seven Steps of The Thuggee

Giles sat statue still in his officeUnsure whether or not he should moveLike a hunted deer in the woodsWaiting for chances of survival to improve

And yet though he were vulnerable Life coursed through every artery and veinThe lost keystone of his arched spiritThe panacea for tedious boredom and pain

DING! ****! The doorbell rang"Zamira, who is it? Can you please see?"Footsteps approached the front entranceGiles felt instinctively "fight or flee"

He sat with silence looming over himFor what seemed like an eternity "****** ancient bell!" he shouted"This whole house repels modernity!"

Down stairsAt the entranceThe Cuban butler stared out into the nightLooking for a signLooking for who...Who had left the parcel she now clutched tight

No oneNothingBut for the song of a lonely nightingale She hurried To the officeWhere she found her employer looking pale

Zamira explained what had happened And handed him the black wrapped box"Would you like me to open it Sir?" "No! I would like... a chartreuse on the rocks"

She left to attend to his request

For the attention of Mr. G. Bradshaw-BehramSoon after the two laser beams were on the wrappingInside the box was a detailed programA history of the Thuggee cult and a Thuggee king

The Thuggee King called BEHRAM!Behram, BEHRAM! His late mother’s family nameA Thuggee cult King relative?With over 900 hundred murders to that man’s claim

Zamira returned with his drinkGiles had never needed one so muchThe following weeks more instruction came

Weeks just turned to monthsMonths quickly turned to yearsSix of the secret steps completeSo many grotesque souvenirs

All leading to this momentOn his lawn under the hunters moonThe waiting was now over The others would be here very soonFirst a pinch of Peruvian Sniffed from his pretty little silver spoonAdjusting his cummerbundThat soon would erase two souls fortune

Four black Jaguars and a refrigerated vanCrunched over the gravel drive to our manGiles stood still and smiled, for it had began

Each of the six women and the six menWere concealed with hoods and veils But Giles' face was not hidden from themNow that he controls the final inhales

Deep in the candle light of the wine cellar Which had been prepared with plastic sheets and tapeA skirt of dismembered arms on an altarA grim garland of forty eight human skulls, mouths agape

But fifty skulls are required According to the ancient textTwo more to soon be providedGiles planned to do that next

"Bring the two travellers to me" demanded Giles"Let me send them on their final way"Eight of the group left and within minutes returnedWith four bound, hooded for him to slay.

Giles felt suddenly unable to function"This was not meant to be!""The others witnessed the abduction, Sir""They...will not please Kali"

"Stand those women over thereTie them back to backMake sure your knots are fixedOffer them no slack!"

The silk cummerbund slidEffortlessly off his waistWeighted near the middle To offer death less hasteThe first of the male offeringsOnly kicked for 30 secondsthe world stopped moving when the other felt the silk band

The back to back females started spinningTheir hoods removed and ******* goneGiles did not look up to see who he knewFocused solely on continuing strangulation

This time the Thuggee's had another viewZamira and Liliana in a blurring spinBlack of space and ocean of deep blueZamira angered, Liliana peaceful grin

All but their arms becoming oneMorphing seamlessly into each otherThe (previously twin) sisters had becomeThe universe's all powerful mother

K A L I...

Final part

Nothing escapes the all-consuming march of time!

As KALI consumed time and spaceHer dimensions grew and grewHer skin darkened to deep space blackFrom unfathomable ocean blueRivers of obsidian flowed as her wild hairUntamed, magnificent, streamingThree blood red eyes past, present, futureDecided who needed redeemingFour arms, three of which were graspingA sword, a spear, a bowlThe fourth grabbed a Thuggee's head Sword decapitated the soulA crimson red snake of a tongue lashed Out for every drop of bloodThen the sword slashed every throat thereHer tongue lapped up the floodKALI'S gaze finally cast upon terrified GilesEvaporating his body with fireHis conscience was that remained in that dimensionHis conscience changed KALI'S desireFrightful fury morphed in to motherly compassionHer skin back from black to blueSpewing out rearranged history, time and space No other being could construeBut a mother must teach her children lessonsSo she left Giles not without guiltA ****** message painted on his foreheadAnd a sword driven to its hilt

*THE END!

I know, ****** long and therefor wont be read by many but I just thought it should be posted as one document.

Eye to eye on the opponent A strategy for me to exploreA beginning before any scoreI am ready with my silver swordBefore I begin, I want to salute my LordCling Cling to the other opponent’s swordA battle to the finishWho will be victorious and distinguished?The opponent raises his sword to catch me off guardYet my plan being a strategyA mind game to confuse my opponentMy sword will be the victorious oneWe are doing battle and far from doneMy sword is my king and eye from Heaven being the thingSuddenly the other opponent hits the groundIt’s his sword falling in the making the soundMy sword is pointed at the opponent’s chestThe same sword could end his lifeShall he live or should I cut off his breath?This is a moment to be victoriousBut since my sword cokes from the Lord, I will let the other opponent liveAfter all, this was a pillar of Strategy WarThis wasn’t a war to the deathIt was a war in showing who was confident and assuredWho was the best and who should get applauseThe sword had a reflecting light with someone’s nameThe name being Lord VictoriousA war being nothing more than a gameBut with coaching in knowing I was the tameNo negative vibe of blameThe strategy war in what I sawIt was the test of endurance and confidence in being sure.

a fine tuning here, a tinkering there, once there was words, but now, swords everywhere

swords falling, stabbing, penetrating the hearts of manyrunrunrunits no usewords can be sharp like swordsswords can be dull like words

drows in drowawaiting the next movethe alpha signals the packadvancement to spearhead the operationa scene of vengeance, dread, anxiety, anger and darknessa scene of implicit clues; a reflection of reality across the multi dimensions

This poem illustrates the strong correlation between the names that appear in Welsh and Irish mythology. Much of this lore predates the Arthurian legends, and was assimilated as Arthur’s fame (and hyperbole) grew. Caladbolg is the name of a mythical Irish sword, while Caladvwlch is its Welsh equivalent. Caliburn and Excalibur are later variants.

“It is not the sword, but the man,” said Merlyn. But the people demanded a sign— the sword of Macsen Wledig, Caladbolg, the “lightning-shard.”

“It is not the sword, but the words men follow.” Still, he set it in the stone —Caladvwlch, the sword of kings— and many a man did strive, and swore,and many a man did moan.

But none could budge it from the stone.

“It is not the sword or the strength,” said Merlyn, “that makes a man a king, but the truth and the convictionthat ring in his iron word.”

“It is NOT the sword!” cried Merlyn, crowd-jostled, marveling as Arthur drew forth Caliburn with never a gasp,with never a word,

On the bow of the boat, with the cold cloud of the dismal day brushing your back conjuring goose bumped flesh you hold an anchor. For the first time, you can pick this silver anchor up with only one hand and hold it over your head. It resembles the Morning Star, a brutal medieval weapon that bludgeons and impales its victims. Drop it into the dark world beyond the security of your boat--watch the anchor descend. Watch this silver anchor--this Morning Star--descend away from the boat and you, it becomes swarmed over with darkness. It forms a ******-metallic grin at first as it sinks, then the sinking silver anchor takes its last shape at its last visible glimpse. It is so small now as if it could be hung from a necklace. It is a silver sword. Peering over the side of the boat, the depths collectively look like the mouth of a Cannibalistic Crab, throwing the shadows of its mandibles over everything that sinks down into it--black mandibles that have joints with the same angle of a Reaper's Scythe.

I am scared looking at this sinking phantasm. I see something from my youth down there in this dark cold Atlantic. I see the silver Morning Star again, now in golden armor. I remember a magnificent kingdom, in a saltwater fish tank I had once and never had again. A tropical paradise that I see again as I stare down into the depths. This fish tank was so beautiful with the most beautiful inhabitants who I miss. Before I could lift the silver anchor--the Morning Star--over my head with only one hand, turning gold in that morning sun-- I was a boy who sat indian style, cross legged--peering into this brilliant spectacle of light I thought awesome. I thought all the darkness of home and the world was kept at bay by this kingdom of light...

Chapter 1 Begins the Story

The Grey Skies of Mass is the Name of This Chapter.

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Air, in bubbles--it was a world beauty of darkness revealed in slashes of light from dashing fluorescent bulbs overhead this fish tank.Silver swords of fluorescent energy daring to the bottom, every slash revealing every color of the zodiac--from the Gold of Scorpio to the purple of Libra combining into the jade of the Gemini. In the center, like a dark Stonehenge were rocks. The exterior rocks had tropical colors like that of cotton candy, but the interior shadows of the rocks that was the Stonehenge, did not possess one photon of light. The silver messengers of the florescent energy from above would tire and die at their base. The shadows of the Stonehenge rocks would stand over them as they died.

When the boy named Sake climbed the rickety wood stairs of the house, he did so in fear of making noise, as if to not wake each step. Until he could see the glowing aura of his fish tank then he would start down that eerie hall, With pictures of ghosts and ghosts of pictures staring down at him as he walked down that rickety hallway of this towering old colonial home. He hurried to the glowing tank to escape the black and white gazing picture frames. The faint gurgling, bubbling of the saltwater tank became stronger in his ear, and that sound guided him from the last haunt of the hallway-- the empty room that was perpendicular to his room. He only looked to his bright tank as soon as he entered the hallway from the creaky wooden steps. Then he proceeded to sit in front of this great tropical fish tank in Indian style with his legs folded over one another as children so often would sit. The sun was setting. The reflections from the tank were beginning to send ripples down the dark walls. Increasing wave after wave reflecting down his dark walls. He thought they to be seagulls flapping into the darkness until they were overcome as he was listening to the bubbling water of his tank. " Hello my fish, hello Angel, hello Tang, hello Hoomah, hello Clown and hello Damsel … and hello to you Crab...even though I do not like you," he said in half jest not looking at the crab in the entrance of the rocks. The rocks were the color of cotton candy, but the interior shadows did not possess a photon of luminescence. All other shadows not caused by the rocks--but by bright swaying ornament--were like the glaze on a candy apple--dark but delicious. Besides the crab's layer in the rock jumble at the center of the tank which was a Stonehenge within a Stonehenge--the tank was a world of bright inviting light. The crab was in its routine, motionless in the entrance to his foyer, with his scythe-like claws in the air, in expectation of catching one of the bright fish someday. For that reason the boy tried to remove the crab in the past, but even though the boy was fast with his hand, the optical illusion of the tank would always send his hand where the crab no longer was. He did not know how to use two hands to rid the crab in the future by trapping and destroying the Cannibal Crab ; his father, on a weekend visit, gave the Crab to the boy to put into the bright world of the saltwater tank, which Sake quickly regretted. His father promised him that the Crab would not be able to catch any of the fish he said " ...***** only eat anything that has fallen to the bottom or each other..."

A scream from the living room downstairs ran up the rickety wood and down the long hall and startled the boy. His mother sent her shrieks out to grab the boy, allowing her to not have to waste any time nor calorie on her son; for she would tire from the stairs, but her screams would not, allowing her to stay curled up on the couch. If she was not screaming for Sake, she was talking as loud as screams on the phone with her girlfriends. The decibels from her laugh was torture for all in the silent house. A haughty laugh in a gossipy conversation, that overpowered the sound of the bright tropical fish tank in Sake's room that was above and far opposite her in the living room. " Sake you have to get a paper-route to pay for the tank, the electricity bill is outrageous," she said while not taking her eyes off the TV and her legs curled up beside her. He would glad fully get a paper-route even if it was for a made up reason. He turned to go, and looked back at his mother, and a shudder ran through him with a new thought: someday her appearance will match her voice.

Upon reaching his tank, Hoomah was trying to get his attention as always. Taking up pebbles in his big pouty pursed lips and spitting them out of his lips like a weak musket. The Hoomah was a very silly fish, it looked like one of Sake’s aunts, with too much make up on, slightly overweight, and hovering on two little fins that looked incapable of keeping it afloat, but they did. The fins reminded him of the legs of his aunt--skinny under not so skinny.’

The Tang was doing his usual aquanautics , darting and sailing was his trick. He was fast, the fastest with his bright yellow triangular sail cutting the water. Next was the aggressive Clown fish, the boy thought she was always aggresive because she didn't have an anemone to sleep on. The Clown was strong and sleek with an orange jaw and body that was built like a tigress. Sake thought something tragic about the body if the orange Clown and the three silver traces that clawed her body as decoration -they reminded him of the incandescent orange glow of a street lamp being viewed through the rainy back windshield of a car. The Clown fish was a distraction that craved attention.The Clown would chase around some of the other fish and jump out of the water to catch the boy's eye. Next is the Queen Angel fish, she is the queen of the tank, she sits in back all alone, waving like a marvelous banner, iridescent purple and golden jade. Her forehead slopes back in a French braid style that streams over her back like a kings standard waving before battle, but her standard is of a house of beauty, and that of royal purple.

Lastly is the Damsel Fish, the smallest and most vulnerable in the tank. She has royal purple also, rivaling the queen. Her eyes are lashed but not lidded like the Hoomah. Her eyes are elliptical, and perhaps the most human, or in the boy’s opinion, she is the most lady like, the Hoomah and the Queen Angel come to her defence if she is chased around by the Clown. Her eyes penetrate the boys, to the point of him looking away.

Before the tank, in its place in the corner was a painting, an oil painting of another type of Clown donning a hat with orange partial make-up on his face (only around eyes nose and mouth there was ghost white paint) and it had two tears coming down from its right eye. The Clown painting was given to him by his mother, it seems he could not be rid of them, but Sake at first was taken in by the brightness of the Clown, and the smooth salacious wet look of the painting. it looked dripping, or submerged, like another alternate reality. The wet surreal glaze of the painting seemed a portal, especially the orange glow of the Clown's skin without make-up. . If he tried to remember of times before the Clown painting that preceded the Clown fish, he thought of the orange saffron twilight of sunset, and watching it from the high window from his room in the towering house. How that light changed everything that it touched, from the tree tops and the clouds, to even the dark hallway leading up to his room. The painting and the Clown fish did not feel the same as those distant memories of sunset, especially the summer sunset when his mother would put him to bed long before the sun had set. Sake did not voice opposition to the Clown. Then he was once again trapped by the Clown. The boy was extremely afraid of this painting that replaced the sunsets , being confined alone with it by all those early bedtimes.Sake once asked his mother if he could take it down, whereas she said " No." That clown would follow him into his dreams, always he would be down the hill from the tall house on the hill, trying to walk back to the house, but to walk away or run in a dream was like walking underwater or in black space, and he would make no distance as the ground opened up and the clown came out of the ground hugging him with the pryless grip of eight arms. He would then wake up amid screams and a tearful hatted clown staring somberly down at him from the wall where it was hung. Night made him fear the Clown painting more; that ghost white make-up decorating around the eyes and mouth seeming to form another painting in entirety. He could only look at the painting after a while when the lights were on, and the wet looking painting was mostly orange from the skin, neck, and forearms of the hat wearing clown. But the painting is gone now, and the magnificent light display of the tank is there now.

Sake pulled out the fish food, all the fish bestirred in anticipation of being fed. The only time they would all come together; and that was to mumble the bits of falling flakes: a chomp from the Clown, a pucker from the Hoomah, the fast mumble of the Tang, and the dainty chew of the Damsel. The Queen Angelfish would stay near the bottom, and kiss a flake over and over. She would not deign herself to go into a friendly frenzy like the other fish; she stayed calm, yet alluring like a flag dancing rhythmically in the breeze, but never repeating the same move as the wind never repeats the same breeze. She is the only fish to change colors. When the grey skies of Mass emit through every portal in the house at the height of its bleakness, her colors would turn more fantastic, perhaps why she is queen.

He put his finger in the top of the watery world; the warmth was felt all the way up his arm. After feeding, his favorite thing to do was to trace his finger on the top of the warm water and have the Damsel follow it. She loved it, it was her only time to dance, for the Clown would descend down in somewhat fear ( or annoyance) of the boys finger, and the Damsel and he would dance. The boy, thought that extraordinary.

Sake bedded down that night, to his usual watery world of his room. The reflective waves running down the walls like seagulls of light, with the rhythmic gurgling sound and it's occasional splash of the Clown, or the Hoomah swooping into the pebbly bottom to scoop up some pebbles for spitting making the sound "ccchhhhh" --cachinging like a distant underwater register. The tank’s nocturne sound was therapeutic to the boy.

Among waking up, and being greeted by his sparkling treasure tank--that was always of the faintest light in the morning due to the grey skies of Mass coming through every portal to lessen the tropical spectrum-- the boy would render his salutations " Good morning my Hoomah.....good morning Tang, my Damsel, and your majesty Queen Angel.....and so forth. Until the scream would come to get him, and he would walk briskly past the empty room and the looming family pictures of strangers. His mother put him to work that day, to "pay for the fish tank" but really to buy her a new cocktail dress for her nightly forays. The boy did not care, the tank was his sun, emitting through the bleak skies of Mass, and even if the tank was reduced to a haze by the overcast of his life, it only added a log to the fire that was the tropical world at night, in turn making him welcome the dismal day. On a day, when the overcast was so thick, he felt he could not picture his rectangular orb waiting for him at night. He had trouble remembering what houses to deliver the paper. He delivered to the same house three times. Newspapers seemed to disappear in his hands, due to their color relation to the sky. Leaves were falling from the trees—butterfly like—he went to catch one, he missed--a first. For Sake could walk through dense thorned brambles and avoid every barb, as a knight in combat or someone’s whose heart felt the painful sting of the barb before. He would stand under a tree in late fall, and roll around to avoid every falling leaf, and pierce them to the ground deftly with a stick fashioned as a sword. He could slither between snow flakes, almost like a fish nimbly avoiding small flakes. After he finished his paper-route , he went to his usual spot under an oak tree to fence with falling leaves. As the other boys walked by and poked fun he would stall his imagination, and look to the brown landscape of the dry fall. The crisp brown leaves of the trees were sword shapes to him. He held the battle ax shape of the oak leaf over his eye held up by the stick it was pierced through, and spied the woodline through the sinus of the oak leaf lobe. The brown white speckled scenery, were all trying to hide behind eachother by blending in bleakfully; he pretended the leaf was Hector’s helmet from the Illiad—donned over his eyes. “ Whatchya doing Sake?” asked a young girl named Summer. Sake only mumbled something nervously and stood there. And a pretty Summer passed on after Sake once again denied himself of her pretty company. He looked to the woodline again, a mist was now concealing the tall apical trees. It now looked like the brown woodland was not trying to retreat behind eachother in fall concealment, but trying to emerge forth out of the greyness to say "save us."

“ Damgf” he uttered, and could not even grasp a word correctly. His head lifted to the sky repeatedly, there was no orb, and the shadows were looming larger than ever; fractioned shadows from tree branches were forming scythes all over the ground. He entered the large shadow that was his front door, into the house that rose high into the sky, with the simplicity of Stonehenge. He climbed the rickety petrified stairs and went down the hall. Grey light had spotlighted every frame on the wall. He looked into the empty room, nothingness, then his room, the tank seemed at its faintest, and it was nearing twilight. He walked past the tank to look out the w

Dragon-Man watched in horror as Vibrate readied her soldiers for war.Such a force of arms was so formidable Dragon-Man had not seen before.Suddenly Vibrate sniffed the air and said, I smell the hired gun of Dragon-Power.Bring him to me alive so I can show him the destruction that is ours.Dragon-Man prepared to teleport and Dialect grabbed his arm saying, We have to draw them out.Here come with me, I can set up a perimeter and this is the best route.They went through the forest, and Dragon-Man was holding his sore arm.Hoping that Dialect was correct, and that his plan would prevent more harm.Suddenly Dialect turned and said, Give me your Abyss Sword, it talks to her essence.We can use it to send Vibrate an unforgivable and unforgettable message.Dragon-Man stuck the Abyss Sword in the ground, and suddenly they could see through Vibrate’s eyes.Dragon-Man was shocked at the pure evil coming from Vibrate’s life-force, she wanted only demise.

This is our last stand, Dialect murmured, and Dragon-Man urged, So we should go back to the others.Dialect nodded and said, We must tell the Covenantial Project because he is Vibrate’s brother.That thing has a sibling?! Dragon-Man asked in horror, They were a part of the Infinite OrderThey were all in charge of the Manifest Blades, which were the Abyss, Templar, and Trifecta Swords.Tyrus Animus reigned over all as the Chieftain Caesar of the Project Overlord. The Covenantial Project was supposed to **** Vibrate but he failed so the Abyss Sword rejected him. The Order broke up, because then the Covenantial Project was unworthy to fight Vibrate then. Vibrate escaped, and Tyrus Animus told the Covenantial Project there was one way to redeem.There must be a Federation formed with the Dragon-Power to battle Vibrate’s schemes.Then the Abyss Sword went down to the Earth and the Dragon-Power examined its contents.And used the Midas Template to make the Federation Weapons with their last disembodiment. Dragon-Man was shocked, because this was the origin of the Federation.But he dare not ask how Vibrate was related to Shark-Devil and Drozen.Dialect took the Abyss Sword out of the ground and said, You are a part of this Order now.Because you were not just chosen to be the Alliance Project to take Vibrate’s place, you were endowed.So kneel before a former Faceless Tongue, and accept your incoming destiny first.Dragon-Man accepted this sword with gratitude, knowing he would save this universe.

Vibrate angrily shook her head and said, Someone is tampering with my sight in my head.Whoever is so insolent to use tricks to do this, I want him and his world dead.Dragon-Man took the Abyss Sword, touched it and got back to Message and the rest.He stood there gasping, as the Intellic Armor covered his being right through to his chest.The Abyss Sword also transformed, and had a javelin, blade, and fireweapon capability.It was just the sort of instrument to play Vibrate’s demise and do it readily.Where is the Chietain Caesar, Dragon-Man asked, and Message asked, We don’t even know he exists.But if he does we would badly need him for a fight on a godforsaken rock like this. The Covenantial Project lowered his head, knowing he failed where Dragon-Man had prevailed.But as a fellow member of Project Overlord, he had to help Dragon-Man in this tale.Suddenly Dialect said, I hear something, it is the voice of evil that creeps in the shadows.Message shouted to the Federation behind her, Brave manpeople, get ready for battle!The Federation readied its Mechanisms for firing on who would dare invade.The Covenantial Project and the Alliance Project each stepped forward with their blade.The Covenantial Project wielded the Doctrinian Scythe that was ready made. Suddenly Vibrate appeared to him in the midst and said, I was brought here by your bloodthirst.And The Covenantial Project you cannot beat me, because you are cursed.The Alliance Project shouted, Come down and fight us, or else hold your peace. Vibrate walked in front of The Alliance Project and said, I have always wanted to see a Project deceased.Suddenly her footsoldiers arrived, but they were shot down by the Federation Missiles.Message looked grim in the face, and when Dialect raised his hand it became a crystal.She raised the Celestial Blade Saber and Winged Fire-Lance to cut it off, as Dialect let out a cry.He sank to his knees and Vibrate called out, I told you that who was in my head would have to die.The Alliance Project switched his Abyss Sword to Javelin Mode, and threw it into Vibrate’s eye.The crystals on Dialect’s hand broke, and he breathed a sigh of relief.But the Battle of Paldon was upon them, one that they might not be able to leave.

Blood dripping from the lustful swordForged in the eddies of hell The lives of men beckoning At every moment and turn Blood dripping from the lustful swordBut it's never enough Its thirst is never quenched Forever parched Dustier than a desert plainBlood dripping from the lustful swordA thousand have been felled Stalks of wheat in the wind And I the wielderBlood dripping from the lustful swordAm not even safe As the blade turns inwardPiercing my chestBlood dripping from the lustful swordCutting through my heart As if it were ashesLatching on and drinking its fillBlood dripping from the lustful sword I crumpleI fall The hand that has fed it Has in turn been bitten

But wherein does the music lie?In the strings themselves,Or in the hand that plucks them?

Wherein, indeed,Do the words reside—In the pen itself,Or in the hand that wields it?

Written after a friend asked me, "the pen or the sword?" The last two stanzas were inspired by lines found in T.A. Barron's saga series on young Merlin (if you've read those books then I am sorely impressed)

The Sword of Non-ViolenceThe time we bornIs a age of war-mongersEast to WestSouth to North

Throughout the WorldThere's not a single momentYou can't heard about a warIt's a must in our daily lifeMay be in lieu of civil warBut it existsNone can disobey it's presenceAnd,where there is a warThere must be a weaponAnd,in true sense war can't be without weaponThere're so many varieties of this weaponEven may be countlessBut,once a person made exceptionYes,he invented a swordThe SWORD OF NON-VIOLENCEStrange it seems to beBut,it's factAnd,we should proud of himBecause,he's an IndianWe all know him as Mohandas Karamchand GandhiAlso renowned as Bapuji i.e Father of NationWe celebrate his birth anniversary as a holidayBut,did we even use his weapon once in our lifetime?Surely,the answer would be noBut,if we really respect himWe should do soIsn't it?Think it off!And,last of all I would like to conclude withIf he can so we too-Written on 02.10.2012

“CAAAAMON-CAAAMON-CAAMON-CAMON. *******. *******, YOU STUPID *******!!!!” I slam on the brakes as the traffic light turns red, the front end of my car now parked in the middle of the intersection.

A bunch of headlights begin to move towards me, and I rev the engine, slamming the car into reverse. Now behind the white line, I lean back and take a few breaths. I sound like my old man. That nasty, fat ***** was always screaming at those useless racehorses as his soggy, limp cigar would bounce from his lips, spit landing all over the paid-in-full fakies of whatever blonde ***** was cuddled up next to him for the afternoon. Having lost everything by the end of the day, he would always plod home and deposit his soiled, checkered pants on the laundry room floor and crawl into bed to make love to my mom.

Ugh. I need to stop thinking about him. I already wish I could be one of those old horses who gets shot in the head. Today was my five-year work anniversary, and on behalf of the entire department, volcano-face Emily bestowed upon me a massive dog bone, which now sits tauntingly on my passenger seat. As she suppressed that nasty giggle of hers and handed me the bone, the room erupted with laughter, someone shouting from the back corner, “Hey, Ed! Get it?! You’re always like a dog with a bone!” Maybe I should go back to work and make that ***** play fetch.

No. I’ll save that for later. Right now I am going to go get that Philly Cheese Steak sandwich that’s been on my mind all afternoon. That is if this light ever turns green again. But ******* is my mouth salivating just thinking about that sandwich.

What the hell is that?

A Ford Bronco is blazing towards the intersection, directly into oncoming traffic. It swerves onto the shoulder, speeding past the rows of stopped cars and blasting through the red light. The driver is leaning out the window, swinging around a sword. He notices me staring and looks straight into my eyes, solidifying his unspoken threat by pointing his medieval weapon straight at my heart.

Fine. If that ******* wants a duel, I would hardly be a gentleman if I did not oblige. I reach behind the passenger seat and grab the antique cop light that’s been gathering dust on the floor ever since I purchased it at the neighborhood thrift store. I slap the thing on the top of my car and punch through the red light, cranking the steering wheel to make a quick u-ey. As I gain some distance, I can just barely make out the license plate.

DR PEPR

You’ve got to be kidding me.

Dr. Pepper ignores the fact that I am only 20 feet behind him and turns up his stereo, blasting a Renaissance dance tune from hell.

I’m going to end this, and I’m going to end it by sticking that sword up that Shakespeare *******’s ***.

Dr. Pepper slams on his brakes, the sudden jolt causing him to drop his sword. The passengers in the back of the cab burst into a slow-motion uproar, and I take the opportunity to cut off their escape route. Now stopped, I pull out my mocha-flavored e-cig from my front pocket and look over at my dog bone as the vapor fills the car. I snag the bone and step outside, feeling the weight of the rawhide in my hand as I approach the truck. Not stopping to bother with the driver, I head towards the back, kicking the forgotten sword into traffic. My clothes are bathed in red from the brake lights, and the coked-out frenzy of the Renaissance men reaches a ****** as I stand before them, looking like the devil himself.

Adrenaline is surging through me. As I take a drag of mocha, I scan the faces of the annoying pukes in the back of the truck and locate the nastiest in the bunch sitting in the middle of his troupe, completely stiff with fear. I look deep into his eyes and slowly exhale. I pull one more drag as I raise the massive bone and bring it crashing down, making full contact with the left brake light. The red shards explode into the sky, and I do not hesitate to follow up with the other break light. Adrenaline coursing through my veins, I can’t help but swing even harder.

Wow - what a beautiful explosion.

“Unsheathe thy sword! UNSHEATHE THY SWORD!”

Dr. Pepper searches frantically for his sword as I casually approach his door. “Dr. Pepper,” I say calmly. He continues to desperately ***** around the truck, so I lean forward, “DR. PEPPER.” He turns begrudgingly to look at me. Wanting to bid farewell to my defeated adversary, I raise my right hand into a 90 degree angle and wiggle my fingers “bye-bye” in his direction. His blood-shot, brown eyes widen, and it’s clear that he is terrified that his face will be the source of my next fireworks display. Lucky for him my stomach growls, reminding me that my quest for a Philly Cheese Steak sandwich remains unfulfilled.

I walk away, the cherry light still flashing on top my car, so I take my bone and take a hard swing, unleashing the last set of fireworks in my perfectly-directed scene. I get in the car, and as I start the engine, the oldies station is blaring Clarence the Frogman Henry’s song, “Ain’t Got No Home”. It’s the best part of the song, and without hesitation I begin to tap out the rhythms on my steering wheel and sing along with Clarence in that high-pitched voice of his:

“I ain’t got no sister,I ain’t got a brother,I ain’t got a father,not even a mother,I’m a lonely boy,I ain’t got a home.Whoo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo!Whoo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-­woo-woo!”

1:1Stop. Who’s there? Tis clock strikes twelve,brings thy Horatio to seek tis specter from hell,In Denmark, something is rotting in thy state,In Norway, unimprovèd mettle hot and full awaits,Tis specter arrives to arouse confusion and fear,but to treat it violence and majestic threat,thy specter departs as the ****’s crow drew near, leaving the blows of malicious mockery to regret.And for Hamlet may speak to the wandering soul,Tis morning to Hamlet must the three a’go.

1:2Claudius, thy Uncle, is crowned King a’last,Gertrude, thy Mother, hastily marries a’fast.With duties done, Laertes to France adieu,Hamlet griefs thy Father’s death and thy Mother’s dine,for once a Hyperion to now a satyr is Uncle to Father a’new,is but now a little more than kin and less than kind.Horatio brings poor Hamlet the fatherly news,that King Hamlet’s specter is now a’loose.The joyous Hamlet is but joyous to see,the two month father, dead and decease,but for he calls that foul deeds will foully arise.He hurries to the heavenly site prior sunrise.

1:3Laertes to Ophelia, a brother to sister, he warns,that Hamlet is but a fiery lover and to love he sworn,but to love now is but not the future,for Hamlet’s fire may, thy mind unpure,for his lovely vows are not to believe,he is but a man of deception to conceive.For when Laertes departs, Polonius rants,that Hamlet’s love, Ophelia must recantfor his affections and fashions are but false wows,for when blood burns, lends the tongue false vows.

1:4Shrewdly the air bites, nipping and eager,at Horatio and Hamlet thy specter nears.To speak alone, it beckons so,But Horatio to Hamlet speaks no,for may it draw thy madness and strip thy reason,but to thee specter does Hamlet go,for thy life is but a’lacking living reason.Aback do they hold him most,but Hamlet, his sword he wieldsFate has brought him here, he feelsTo hold him back is but to turn a’ghost

2:1Reynaldo to Laertes, Claudius a’spies,to Paris, Reynaldo goes with a’plan devised,to seek the situation of Laertes in foreign hoods,with bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth.Ophelia then enters, with her father she shares,"Oh, father, father, I’ve just had such a scare!"In her sewing room, it is Hamlet she sees,with no hat, nor buttons, nor stable kneesFor he stared and stared to let out a final sigh,Love mad he may be, a’to King we must a’by.

2:2With Rosencrantz and Guildenstern,Directly or indirectly will Claudius learn,of Hamlet’s matters they are to return.Polonius, with news of Hamlet, he waits,for thee Ambassador, to inform that Denmark Gates,Are to be opened for young Fortinbra’s ****** defeat,Polonius to Claudius, reveals thy madness roots,For Hamlet is but love crazy for the fairest fruits,of dearest Ophelia, who a letter he wrote,Proclaims the fairness of her upon tis note.And to test the truth, their confrontation, must’e spy,Behind the arras to view thy love-mad side.Is but our hastily marriage and his father’s death,thy Mother, aware, are but the means of his mad breath.Polonius then to Hamlet, speaks of witty words,A fishmonger he calls, but one of two is misheard,For when Polonius humbly takes a’leave,He is but to take anything, but his life, shall he not receive.Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, enter to Hamlet, they chat,but Hamlet to quickly find the two are but a King’s ****,Only sent to spy on a dearest friend,And to human’s name do they offend,Only to betray a dearest friend in honor of the King.And so Players arrived at Denmark grounds,for they, the best in the world, Polonius sounds.And then for Jephthah, witty Hamlet chants,the song of a foolish man who accidently grants,the sacrifice of his beloved daughter.Pyrrhus, do they perform for dearest Hamlet,His sword is a’air, but a’air it sets,for he hesitates to swing thy sword,And with this, Hamlet hopes to store,the strength to **** the horrid Lord.Though he is but ashamed, for upon false emotions can Players act,And in himself upon truths, strength can he not extract.So a play for the King’s conscience does Hamlet devise,for the heavenly ghost may be false in his advice.

3:1To be or not to be; that is the question,For Hamlet to be nobler or to a’take action,Shall he withdraw with ****** self slaughter,But shall’st never may see thy fairest daughter,To die, but to sleep for a mere dream,But in sleep shall fair or foul be unseen?Now Polonius and Claudius awaits,for Hamlet’s arranged meet with a’bait.Hamlet to Ophelia, his love recants,For honesty and beauty are but Someone’s grants,Once did he love her, but now a’figured,that women are but corrupt and impured,For one’s honestly and beauty can and shall be taint,For if God given thou one face, dear not another by paint.For honestly and beauty has God falsely bred,All but one, shall women *****.All but one, shall women be nun.Hence this marriage is over, and to a nunnery at once,

3:2Let this mousetrap be named and this play a’set,Shall capture thy horrid mouse or thy Uncle of Hamlet.Polonius to Hamlet, the theater he knows,For a Caesar death died he at thee Capitol.Upon the lap of fair Ophelia, does Hamlet, lie,Only to think of country matters and nothing (he implies).And the play begins, with a prologue so brief,Like a woman’s love, was Hamlet’s belief.The King and Queen, a loving bond they share,But the King by a mystic potion envenomed beware.Thee action to ****, a murderous scene it was,Leaving Claudius to regret the murderous act abuzz,He arises to say: Let there be light! Let there be light!And to the joy of Hamlet to see tis joyous sight,For the words of thy heavenly father was but right.Now shall the minute parts of truth ignite.And to his Mother he shall speak daggers wield none,for shall his tongue speak of the cruelties undone.

3:3With Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, to England a’go,Should insane Hamlet know not a hawk from a crow,And behind the arras, Polonius will again spy,the taxation of Hamlet and his Mother’s cry.Polonius departs to spy upon the Mother and the Insane,Only to leave Claudius to regret thy hideous Mark of Cain,Shall he pray the Heavens to forgive him his actions,For thy stripped thy Brother of life, throne, and attractions.As Claudius is never to withdraw his stripped token,Divine forgiveness shall never then be unspoken.Hamlet can **** not his murderous Uncle in praying stance,For a hideous monster shall not a’go Heaven by chance.

3:4So behind the arras dearest Polonius stays,to view the idle and wicked tongue arrays,Thou’st the Queen, Thy Husband’s Brother’s wife!But to hear a rat, shall Hamlet for a ducat its life.Oh, but death ‘neath the arras, may it the King?A horrid act? To **** and wear thy brother’s ring?Oh, King it be not, but be a wretched, rash fool,And now shall Hamlet tell thy Myth a’Ghoul.For thy murderer has slain thy Heavenly mate,And only now by natural law does he abate.Upon these portraits shall ring a’clear,That from thy Heavenly father is he nowhere near,A murderer, a villain, a horrid fiend,He is but a devilish murderer yield unclean,No way can one drop from THIS to THAT,And shall by this scene, the specterous soul attract,Dear not be untenderly to thy Mother it speaks,And shall this revenge soon awake its peak,Hamlet appears a’mad to thy watching Mother,but to his mother he warns, abed not another,For two mouths should speak of none,of this revenge that will soon be done.And again, abed let not him ****** you so,For now, apart to English must’e a’go.

4:1Gertrude to Claudius, she continues to reveal,Of Polonius’s ****** and his arras squeal,"A rat! A rat!" A’mad Hamlet is,Brandished, to rapier the life of his.And now where’s thou Hamlet still?To draw apart the body he hath killed.Rosencrantz and Guildenstern is but yet called again,With discord and dismay, are they to seek that thou slain.

4:2The two seek to Hamlet, for the body’s lair,Compounded with dust now does it wear,And a sponge, does Hamlet call them so,for the King to squeeze them dry and thorough,"A knavish speech sleeps in a foolish ear."The body a’by a’King, but a’King, the body unnear.And so, Hamlet to the King premiere.

4:3And to Claudius does Hamlet call,That Polonius now rests at a dining hall,‘til a conference of worms devours him allHe shall eat not, but they eat so,‘tis our fate despite status quo.And upon the lobby stairs a corpse may lay,One of dearest Polonius, slain to heaven or hellNow to English death must Hamlet pay,To one mother does he give two farewells.

4:4With a Captain does Hamlet now proceed,Who tells of young Fortinbras of Norway accede,The Norway prince through Denmark he leads,to seize a’minute ****** patch must’e receive.A worthless land, must many die for one,But true greatness acts not from fair reason,But for the sake of the mind when honor is won.And has Someone granted the reasoning mind,For man to hesitate so cowardly inside,For thy deed to act, must we rid the mind bind,And act on instinct and be not wise.And from the reasoning state must Hamlet now leave,for honor he shall act, and his emotions he’ll believe.

4:5False sanity is but false no more,For fair Ophelia’s reason be not restore.A’now sings of thy premature stone a’foot thy father’s grave,and the departure of Hamlet for thy wed depraved.Claudius is but to blame for thee rotting state,For Polonius, a proper ceremony he not awaits,For poor Ophelia, stripped from her reasonous state,For Laertes aback from France, by thy father’s death, irate.And Laertes enters, with thy support for king,For the murderer, vengeful death shall he bring,So Claudius to Laertes, says he is not to blame,but thy father’s murderer is but another name.And enters Ophelia, with figurative flowers to give,But those of Faithfulness have ceased to live.Alive are but for Thoughts, for Remembrance,for Adultery, for Repentance, and for False Romance.For his sister’s sanity is but another to blame,Laertes, a vengeance mind, is but now aflame.

4:6Horatio, a letter from Hamlet he receives,that upon a Pirate ship has Hamlet board,And that shall with speed would’st fly a’breathe.Meet to hear the story Hamlet has a’stored.

4:7Claudius to Laertes, he speak of innocence,for by public appearance, the truth may bent,For the public count loves Hamlet so,And to thy fair Mother, Claudius a’beau.Thy noble father lost and sister insane,The murderous filth of Hamlet is to blame.At this, a loyal messenger approaches,to deliver the news that but Hamlet reproached,An English death did Hamlet face not,For now his destined death are they to plot,Naked and alone, will he return to Denmark a’learn,Of the honorable fence-match, he shall earn,Against Laertes, whose fatherly love nor illusion,Shall the death of Hamlet draw conclusion.Even a’church will Hamlet, Laertes slay,Death by no bounds, must Hamlet pay.Envenomed rapier and wine shall prepare,the faithful death of murderous Hamlet a’near.Gertrude then enters with Ophelia’s news a’share,For sorrows comes not in singles but in greater pairs,Upon muddy death has Ophelia drowned,for now another death has but profound,

5:1Two Gravediggers upon one grave they create,for to the death of thy Graveowner do they relate,To die by self slaughter or to die by not,the attention of passing Hamlet have they caught.With Hamlet does one of thee two chat,for once a woman, shall this grave be buried at,A quick digger for Hamlet to his surprise,Revealed that to England is mad Hamlet to advise.For a corpse to live for eight or nine,Thy dearest Yorick’s skull is to find,Thy a corpse to date three and twenty,Leaves Hamlet to recall thy memories a’plenty,And to think Alexander, o’buried alike.Here comes the King, Laertes and the Queen,And upon the burial grounds is Ophelia seen,His dearest sister does Laertes mourn,But to Hamlet, her death, his heart a’torn.Laertes to Hamlet, must’e not compare,the death of one is a little more foul than fair,For forty thousand brothers can sum not his love,For the death of the fairest maiden beloved.Claudius to Laertes, must Hamlet pay thy debt,the plot of night prior shall’st not forget.

5:2Hamlet to Horatio, does his truths trust,Of thy wretched King and his unjust,Of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern English death they meet,With sacrifice and thy seal was thou to spare self defeat.Now’st Osric enters to Hamlet a’chat,For’st not hot, nor cold, nor sultry at.And a’wish to court, with thy Laertes of excellence,For Hamlet’s head does thee King expense.With six French rapiers and poniards assign,For by fate’s determination, shall this court incline,For a special providence in the fall of a sparrow,Can we do not, but abide by fate a’follow.Trumpets and drums, now’st the fence begins,For Hamlet and Laertes hand and hand therein.Pardon he begs, Hamlet to thy brother,For in him is but foil Hamlet yet another,And so they fence for honor and fence for life,Two of two leads Hamlet the strife.The King, to Hamlet he drinks,Tis pearl shall he the cup he sinks,And unwounded for two, Hamlet prevails,But Queen, the dearest Mother, so faithfully frail,For she drinks thy cup of heavenly pearl,For heavenly it be not, as thy malicious plot unfurl,The cup! The cup! A poisonous potion,Cause yet another by venomous commotion.A distracting cause, for Hamlet to bear,For Laertes envenomed blade must’e beware,Now envenomed blood shall Hamlet shed,Shall he hold thy rapier of Laertes instead,to shed thy venomous blood of thy venomous mind,For now thy murderous plot shall unwind,At the honorable death of brother Laertes,Shall the death of Claudius be a’seized.The King’s to blame for the death of all,And tis day shall he see his destined fall.With thy venomous blade held a’hand,Let the doors be locked and the evils banned,For Hamlet wounds thy treacherous soul,And shall horrid Claudius pay his destined toll,For Hamlet forces to drink thy murderous potion,And shall he too die of venomous commotion.The death of four and tis ****** scene,Shall Horatio tell to those unseen.Shall he speak of murderous truths embark,for Fortinbras shall now throne Denmark,For in Fortinbras does his admiration lay,For does Hamlet trust thou’st fiery ambitious way,And tis now concludes thy Hamlet’s life,For death and death thou’st all alike...

A dedication and summary of Shakespeare's "Hamlet" the tragedy of the witty prince of Denmark written in 2011 for a class journal assignment.

No one ever fell in love with the slash of a swordYou can slice, dice and tearBut there are war-ravaged, pain-stricken voices echoing everywhereAnd rivers cascading of blood, meat and bone

And a pen made a legend because Aristotle was only a philosopher and Alexander was GreatSo the pen made the sword, swords never made pensAnd ****** was an eight-year-old choir boy on the road to priesthoodAnd Stalin was the child of abusive alcoholic, kicked out of school

But the pen draws scars far deeper then the sword Because words can hurt far better then they healAnd words can cut down people in ways the sword can't fathomAnd you can always stab someone with a pen But you can hardly write a lullaby with a ****** dagger.

Is n't the world filled with remorse while silently your going insane in your headA new way of living is to work with your anger and ****** some one important insteadA sinister calling is preferred and the next morning you read a note from your son that says he is glad that he's deadThe fact is that it's everyone's fault but no one will admit it for dreadEven the most intelligent people in the world are ignorant of some things like not making bombs that can **** the human race and a sword has a double edge

.The future was heading its way very fast,it pondered the alternatives.It could gently levitateand reveal its magickal powers.But now was not the time.Not quite yet.It relaxed, in the way swords relax,and waited for the drop,a tune humming along its full length.Tension just a distant memory.Its point tipped over the edge.It fell,in the manner of magickal swords.Gracefully.

The waterfall felt the ripple of enchantmentas the iron thing crested its … crest,and failed to plummet.That disappointed the waterfall.It also felt the girl,in the swirling flow on the edge,fail to catch it before it fell.It 'heard' the naughty wordsand the scream …

… she had screamedas she lunged for the swordand missed,the Poet had been unceremoniouslyejected from her pocketand disappeared over the edge.So Jerrica screamed.She didn't know what else to do.

Kelm was stalking fish.They hadn't been hiding in the riverso they must be in the trees.He had his catapult readyand maggots to fire at the fish.Then he heard a screamso he started off towards it.He saw the girl staring in horrorand then she bolted off.Down the side of the waterfall.“What the hell are girls for?”he wondered as he wandered off.He decided to go and hector Bruce.

They had abandoned ship.Well, jumped barrel.And now they had gone awol.But the author didn't careabout a couple of slap dash bit parts.He hoped the Troll had got them.

The sword floated serenely.Mattering not in the slightestthat the water was verticaland flowed quicker in that direction.Then it felt a jolt,a ripple in its pond of calm.It was slightly amusedas something grabbed its hilt.And held on.It felt the panic, it felt the relief.Then it felt … a connection.Something tingled along its length.

As his tiny arms clutched the sworda wave of dread passed by,waving at him with a sharp smile.A wave waving in waves.The Poet considered the imagesand clutched harderas nausea also comes in waves.Instead he thought about physics.How could it be he fell faster thanan iron sword?And how was it possibleto slow descent to a mere saunter?Most of all he asked“What does this all over tingling feeling mean?”A barrel plummeted bytoo fast and too **** close.

Kelm was exploringand had found the tiny bridgeupstream from the excitementand was poking about,as is the want of curious little boys.Thats when he found the clay doll.Ugly in a crude kind of way.He wondered if dolls could swimand attached it to his fishing rod.He dunked it.Like a biscuit in tea.The result was a sticky messso he threw it in the river.He made a decision and wandered off,he was going to look for fish nests.

The Troll was confused.He had accidentally discovered Hide and Seek.But didn't understand the rules.Morfine and Choklut were hidingand he was out of ideas.A fairly normal state of mind for a Troll.And now his body was dissolving.He remembered his doll familiar.It must have got wet.And he was fading out of the story.“Goodbye reader. Thankyou for knowing me”he says with a regretful voice.

The astonishing thing about lightis it stops you bumping into things.And the sword was very light,as the tingling pulsed through it.It did not bump into the boulderat the bottom of the waterfall.Rather, it slid gentlyinto the middle of the large stone.

This is today, the air gray with juniper pollen slipping its wayinto wobbly knees and brain matter, dragging into sludgeall the water that makes up a body princess.If a poet could be a princess and if today she is stuck on a bridge sneezing through a dragon’s discriminating riddles.

If all but two of the flowers are roses and all but two of the flowers are daisies and all but two of the flowers are tulips…

This epic fight our girl is far from up to, possibly unable to get over, head off, stand ground against assaults of logic and programming. And in the rock towering up from the brookthe sword of intelligence,the sword of beauty,the sword of friendship,

how many flowers are there?

It’s all very exhausting picking one’s crucial flowersand swords. But maybe, with help from all the animal friends in the forest, they could kick the knees of the dragon,they could make the dragon feel less than with their goadings,or they could convince the princess the choice to play with the beastis just another riddle. Maybe together they could come up with the answer 3.

Later, off the bridge and on the shore of the bank, any shore, any bank (it doesn’t matter), they will all happen upon the sword of words,that balmy burn and wound healer, and this will make the poet princess feel better, strongerthrusting lies and testimony into the history of tomorrow.

For the NaPoWriMo Challenge this year (http://www.napowrimo.net/), I am trying to incorporate one thing that happened during the day (like a holding a current newspaper in my hands) to make sure my poem is reflective of that day. For example, today I was forced to submit to a computerized intelligence test in which the riddle within this poem made an appearance. To further the drama, my juniper pollen allergies simultaneously resurfaced.

Now when they came to the ford of the full-flowing river Xanthus,begotten of immortal Jove, Achilles cut their forces in two: onehalf he chased over the plain towards the city by the same way thatthe Achaeans had taken when flying panic-stricken on the preceding daywith Hector in full triumph; this way did they fly pell-mell, and Junosent down a thick mist in front of them to stay them. The other halfwere hemmed in by the deep silver-eddying stream, and fell into itwith a great uproar. The waters resounded, and the banks rang again,as they swam hither and thither with loud cries amid the whirlingeddies. As locusts flying to a river before the blast of a grass fire-the flame comes on and on till at last it overtakes them and theyhuddle into the water—even so was the eddying stream of Xanthusfilled with the uproar of men and horses, all struggling inconfusion before Achilles. Forthwith the hero left his spear upon the bank, leaning itagainst a tamarisk bush, and plunged into the river like a god,armed with his sword only. Fell was his purpose as he hewed theTrojans down on every side. Their dying groans rose hideous as thesword smote them, and the river ran red with blood. As when fish flyscared before a huge dolphin, and fill every nook and corner of somefair haven—for he is sure to eat all he can catch—even so did theTrojans cower under the banks of the mighty river, and whenAchilles’ arms grew weary with killing them, he drew twelve youthsalive out of the water, to sacrifice in revenge for Patroclus son ofMenoetius. He drew them out like dazed fawns, bound their hands behindthem with the girdles of their own shirts, and gave them over to hismen to take back to the ships. Then he sprang into the river,thirsting for still further blood. There he found Lycaon, son of Priam seed of Dardanus, as he wasescaping out of the water; he it was whom he had once taken prisonerwhen he was in his father’s vineyard, having set upon him by night, ashe was cutting young shoots from a wild fig-tree to make the wickersides of a chariot. Achilles then caught him to his sorrow unawares,and sent him by sea to Lemnos, where the son of Jason bought him.But a guest-friend, Eetion of Imbros, freed him with a great sum,and sent him to Arisbe, whence he had escaped and returned to hisfather’s house. He had spent eleven days happily with his friendsafter he had come from Lemnos, but on the twelfth heaven againdelivered him into the hands of Achilles, who was to send him to thehouse of Hades sorely against his will. He was unarmed when Achillescaught sight of him, and had neither helmet nor shield; nor yet had heany spear, for he had thrown all his armour from him on to the bank,and was sweating with his struggles to get out of the river, so thathis strength was now failing him. Then Achilles said to himself in his surprise, “What marvel do I seehere? If this man can come back alive after having been sold over intoLemnos, I shall have the Trojans also whom I have slain rising fromthe world below. Could not even the waters of the grey sea imprisonhim, as they do many another whether he will or no? This time lethim ******* spear, that I may know for certain whether mother earthwho can keep even a strong man down, will be able to hold him, orwhether thence too he will return.” Thus did he pause and ponder. But Lycaon came up to him dazed andtrying hard to embrace his knees, for he would fain live, not die.Achilles ****** at him with his spear, meaning to **** him, but Lycaonran crouching up to him and caught his knees, whereby the spear passedover his back, and stuck in the ground, hungering though it was forblood. With one hand he caught Achilles’ knees as he besought him, andwith the other he clutched the spear and would not let it go. Thenhe said, “Achilles, have mercy upon me and spare me, for I am yoursuppliant. It was in your tents that I first broke bread on the daywhen you took me prisoner in the vineyard; after which you sold awayto Lemnos far from my father and my friends, and I brought you theprice of a hundred oxen. I have paid three times as much to gain myfreedom; it is but twelve days that I have come to Ilius after muchsuffering, and now cruel fate has again thrown me into your hands.Surely father Jove must hate me, that he has given me over to you asecond time. Short of life indeed did my mother Laothoe bear me,daughter of aged Altes—of Altes who reigns over the warlike Lelegaeand holds steep Pedasus on the river Satnioeis. Priam married hisdaughter along with many other women and two sons were born of her,both of whom you will have slain. Your spear slew noble Polydorus ashe was fighting in the front ranks, and now evil will here befallme, for I fear that I shall not escape you since heaven has deliveredme over to you. Furthermore I say, and lay my saying to your heart,spare me, for I am not of the same womb as Hector who slew yourbrave and noble comrade.” With such words did the princely son of Priam beseech Achilles;but Achilles answered him sternly. “Idiot,” said he, “talk not to meof ransom. Until Patroclus fell I preferred to give the Trojansquarter, and sold beyond the sea many of those whom I had taken alive;but now not a man shall live of those whom heaven delivers into myhands before the city of Ilius—and of all Trojans it shall farehardest with the sons of Priam. Therefore, my friend, you too shalldie. Why should you whine in this way? Patroclus fell, and he was abetter man than you are. I too—see you not how I am great and goodly?I am son to a noble father, and have a goddess for my mother, butthe hands of doom and death overshadow me all as surely. The daywill come, either at dawn or dark, or at the noontide, when oneshall take my life also in battle, either with his spear, or with anarrow sped from his bow.” Thus did he speak, and Lycaon’s heart sank within him. He loosed hishold of the spear, and held out both hands before him; but Achillesdrew his keen blade, and struck him by the collar-bone on his neck; heplunged his two-edged sword into him to the very hilt, whereon helay at full length on the ground, with the dark blood welling from himtill the earth was soaked. Then Achilles caught him by the foot andflung him into the river to go down stream, vaunting over him thewhile, and saying, “Lie there among the fishes, who will lick theblood from your wound and gloat over it; your mother shall not lay youon any bier to mourn you, but the eddies of Scamander shall bear youinto the broad ***** of the sea. There shall the fishes feed on thefat of Lycaon as they dart under the dark ripple of the waters—soperish all of you till we reach the citadel of strong Ilius—you inflight, and I following after to destroy you. The river with its broadsilver stream shall serve you in no stead, for all the bulls youoffered him and all the horses that you flung living into hiswaters. None the less miserably shall you perish till there is not aman of you but has paid in full for the death of Patroclus and thehavoc you wrought among the Achaeans whom you have slain while Iheld aloof from battle.” So spoke Achilles, but the river grew more and more angry, andpondered within himself how he should stay the hand of Achilles andsave the Trojans from disaster. Meanwhile the son of Peleus, spearin hand, sprang upon Asteropaeus son of Pelegon to **** him. He wasson to the broad river Axius and Periboea eldest daughter ofAcessamenus; for the river had lain with her. Asteropaeus stood up outof the water to face him with a spear in either hand, and Xanthusfilled him with courage, being angry for the death of the youthswhom Achilles was slaying ruthlessly within his waters. When they wereclose up with one another Achilles was first to speak. “Who and whenceare you,” said he, “who dare to face me? Woe to the parents whoseson stands up against me.” And the son of Pelegon answered, “Great sonof Peleus, why should you ask my lineage. I am from the fertile landof far Paeonia, captain of the Paeonians, and it is now eleven daysthat I am at Ilius. I am of the blood of the river Axius—of Axiusthat is the fairest of all rivers that run. He begot the famed warriorPelegon, whose son men call me. Let us now fight, Achilles.” Thus did he defy him, and Achilles raised his spear of Pelian ash.Asteropaeus failed with both his spears, for he could use both handsalike; with the one spear he struck Achilles’ shield, but did notpierce it, for the layer of gold, gift of the god, stayed the point;with the other spear he grazed the elbow of Achilles! right armdrawing dark blood, but the spear itself went by him and fixeditself in the ground, foiled of its ****** banquet. Then Achilles,fain to **** him, hurled his spear at Asteropaeus, but failed to hithim and struck the steep bank of the river, driving the spear half itslength into the earth. The son of Peleus then drew his sword andsprang furiously upon him. Asteropaeus vainly tried to drawAchilles’ spear out of the bank by main force; thrice did he tug atit, trying with all his might to draw it out, and thrice he had toleave off trying; the fourth time he tried to bend and break it, butere he could do so Achilles smote him with his sword and killed him.He struck him in the belly near the navel, so that all his bowels camegushing out on to the ground, and the darkness of death came overhim as he lay gasping. Then Achilles set his foot on his chest andspoiled him of his armour, vaunting over him and saying, “Lie there-begotten of a river though you be, it is hard for you to strive withthe offspring of Saturn’s son. You declare yourself sprung from theblood of a broad river, but I am of the seed of mighty Jove. My fatheris Peleus, son of Aeacus ruler over the many Myrmidons, and Aeacus wasthe son of Jove. Therefore as Jove is mightier than any river thatflows into the sea, so are his children stronger than those of anyriver whatsoever. Moreover you have a great river hard by if he can beof any use to you, but there is no fighting against Jove the son ofSaturn, with whom not even King Achelous can compare, nor the mightystream of deep-flowing Oceanus, from whom all rivers and seas with allsprings and deep wells proceed; even Oceanus fears the lightnings ofgreat Jove, and his thunder that comes crashing out of heaven.” With this he drew his bronze spear out of the bank, and now thathe had killed Asteropaeus, he let him lie where he was on the sand,with the dark water flowing over him and the eels and fishes busynibbling and gnawing the fat that was about his kidneys. Then hewent in chase of the Paeonians, who were flying along the bank ofthe river in panic when they saw their leader slain by the hands ofthe son of Peleus. Therein he slew Thersilochus, Mydon, Astypylus,Mnesus, Thrasius, Oeneus, and Ophelestes, and he would have slainyet others, had not the river in anger taken human form, and spoken tohim from out the deep waters saying, “Achilles, if you excel all instrength, so do you also in wickedness, for the gods are ever with youto protect you: if, then, the son of Saturn has vouchsafed it to youto destroy all the Trojans, at any rate drive them out of my stream,and do your grim work on land. My fair waters are now filled withcorpses, nor can I find any channel by which I may pour myself intothe sea for I am choked with dead, and yet you go on mercilesslyslaying. I am in despair, therefore, O captain of your host, troubleme no further.” Achilles answered, “So be it, Scamander, Jove-descended; but Iwill never cease dealing out death among the Trojans, till I have pentthem up in their city, and made trial of Hector face to face, that Imay learn whether he is to vanquish me, or I him.” As he spoke he set upon the Trojans with a fury like that of thegods. But the river said to Apollo, “Surely, son of Jove, lord ofthe silver bow, you are not obeying the commands of Jove who chargedyou straitly that you should stand by the Trojans and defend them,till twilight fades, and darkness is over an the earth.” Meanwhile Achilles sprang from the bank into mid-stream, whereon theriver raised a high wave and attacked him. He swelled his streaminto a torrent, and swept away the many dead whom Achilles had slainand left within his waters. These he cast out on to the land,bellowing like a bull the while, but the living he saved alive, hidingthem in his mighty eddies. The great and terrible wave gatheredabout Achilles, falling upon him and beating on his shield, so that hecould not keep his feet; he caught hold of a great elm-tree, but itcame up by the roots, and tore away the bank, damming the streamwith its thick branches and bridging it all across; whereby Achillesstruggled out of the stream, and fled full speed over the plain, forhe was afraid. But the mighty god ceased not in his pursuit, and sprang upon himwith a dark-crested wave, to stay his hands and save the Trojansfrom destruction. The son of Peleus darted away a spear’s throw fromhim; swift as the swoop of a black hunter-eagle which is the strongestand fleetest of all birds, even so did he spring forward, and thearmour rang loudly about his breast. He fled on in front, but theriver with a loud roar came tearing after. As one who would waterhis garden leads a stream from some fountain over his plants, andall his ground-***** in hand he clears away the dams to free thechannels, and the little stones run rolling round and round with thewater as it goes merrily down the bank faster than the man can follow-even so did the river keep catching up with Achilles albeit he was afleet runner, for the gods are stronger than men. As often as he wouldstrive to stand his ground, and see whether or no all the gods inheaven were in league against him, so often would the mighty wave comebeating down upon his shoulders, and be would have to keep flying onand on in great dismay; for the angry flood was tiring him out as itflowed past him and ate the ground from under his feet. Then the son of Peleus lifted up his voice to heaven saying, “FatherJove, is there none of the gods who will take pity upon me, and saveme from the river? I do not care what may happen to me afterwards. Iblame none of the other dwellers on Olympus so severely as I do mydear mother, who has beguiled and tricked me. She told me I was tofall under the walls of Troy by the flying arrows of Apollo; wouldthat Hector, the best man among the Trojans, might there slay me; thenshould I fall a hero by the hand of a hero; whereas now it seemsthat I shall come to a most pitiable end, trapped in this river asthough I were some swineherd’s boy, who gets carried down a torrentwhile trying to cross it during a storm.” As soon as he had spoken thus, Neptune and Minerva came up to him inthe likeness of two men, and took him by the hand to reassure him.Neptune spoke first. “Son of Peleus,” said he, “be not so exceedingfearful; we are two gods, come with Jove’s sanction to assist you,I, and Pallas Minerva. It is not your fate to perish in this river; hewill abate presently as you will see; moreover we strongly advise you,if you will be guided by us, not to stay your hand from fightingtill you have pent the Trojan host within the famed walls of Ilius—asmany of them as may escape. Then **** Hector and go back to the ships,for we will vouchsafe you a triumph over him.” When they had so said they went back to the other immortals, butAchilles strove onward over the plain, encouraged by the charge thegods had laid upon him. All was now covered with the flood ofwaters, and much goodly armour of the youths that had been slain wasrifting about, as also many corpses, but he forced his way against thestream, speeding right onwards, nor could the broad waters stay him,for Minerva had endowed him with great strength. NeverthelessScamander did not slacken in his pursuit, but was still more furiouswith the son of Peleus. He lifted his waters into a high crest andcried aloud to Simois saying, “Dear br

All night the dreadless Angel, unpursued,Through Heaven’s wide champain held his way; till Morn,Waked by the circling Hours, with rosy handUnbarred the gates of light. There is a caveWithin the mount of God, fast by his throne,Where light and darkness in perpetual roundLodge and dislodge by turns, which makes through HeavenGrateful vicissitude, like day and night;Light issues forth, and at the other doorObsequious darkness enters, till her hourTo veil the Heaven, though darkness there might wellSeem twilight here: And now went forth the MornSuch as in highest Heaven arrayed in goldEmpyreal; from before her vanished Night,Shot through with orient beams; when all the plainCovered with thick embattled squadrons bright,Chariots, and flaming arms, and fiery steeds,Reflecting blaze on blaze, first met his view:War he perceived, war in procinct; and foundAlready known what he for news had thoughtTo have reported: Gladly then he mixedAmong those friendly Powers, who him receivedWith joy and acclamations loud, that one,That of so many myriads fallen, yet oneReturned not lost. On to the sacred hillThey led him high applauded, and presentBefore the seat supreme; from whence a voice,From midst a golden cloud, thus mild was heard.Servant of God. Well done; well hast thou foughtThe better fight, who single hast maintainedAgainst revolted multitudes the causeOf truth, in word mightier than they in arms;And for the testimony of truth hast borneUniversal reproach, far worse to bearThan violence; for this was all thy careTo stand approved in sight of God, though worldsJudged thee perverse: The easier conquest nowRemains thee, aided by this host of friends,Back on thy foes more glorious to return,Than scorned thou didst depart; and to subdueBy force, who reason for their law refuse,Right reason for their law, and for their KingMessiah, who by right of merit reigns.Go, Michael, of celestial armies prince,And thou, in military prowess next,Gabriel, lead forth to battle these my sonsInvincible; lead forth my armed Saints,By thousands and by millions, ranged for fight,Equal in number to that Godless crewRebellious: Them with fire and hostile armsFearless assault; and, to the brow of HeavenPursuing, drive them out from God and bliss,Into their place of punishment, the gulfOf Tartarus, which ready opens wideHis fiery Chaos to receive their fall.So spake the Sovran Voice, and clouds beganTo darken all the hill, and smoke to rollIn dusky wreaths, reluctant flames, the signOf wrath awaked; nor with less dread the loudEthereal trumpet from on high ‘gan blow:At which command the Powers militant,That stood for Heaven, in mighty quadrate joinedOf union irresistible, moved onIn silence their bright legions, to the soundOf instrumental harmony, that breathedHeroick ardour to adventurous deedsUnder their God-like leaders, in the causeOf God and his Messiah. On they moveIndissolubly firm; nor obvious hill,Nor straitening vale, nor wood, nor stream, dividesTheir perfect ranks; for high above the groundTheir march was, and the passive air upboreTheir nimble tread; as when the total kindOf birds, in orderly array on wing,Came summoned over Eden to receiveTheir names of thee; so over many a tractOf Heaven they marched, and many a province wide,Tenfold the length of this terrene: At last,Far in the horizon to the north appearedFrom skirt to skirt a fiery region, stretchedIn battailous aspect, and nearer viewBristled with upright beams innumerableOf rigid spears, and helmets thronged, and shieldsVarious, with boastful argument portrayed,The banded Powers of Satan hasting onWith furious expedition; for they weenedThat self-same day, by fight or by surprise,To win the mount of God, and on his throneTo set the Envier of his state, the proudAspirer; but their thoughts proved fond and vainIn the mid way: Though strange to us it seemedAt first, that Angel should with Angel war,And in fierce hosting meet, who wont to meetSo oft in festivals of joy and loveUnanimous, as sons of one great Sire,Hymning the Eternal Father: But the shoutOf battle now began, and rushing soundOf onset ended soon each milder thought.High in the midst, exalted as a God,The Apostate in his sun-bright chariot sat,Idol of majesty divine, enclosedWith flaming Cherubim, and golden shields;Then lighted from his gorgeous throne, for now“twixt host and host but narrow space was left,A dreadful interval, and front to frontPresented stood in terrible arrayOf hideous length: Before the cloudy van,On the rough edge of battle ere it joined,Satan, with vast and haughty strides advanced,Came towering, armed in adamant and gold;Abdiel that sight endured not, where he stoodAmong the mightiest, bent on highest deeds,And thus his own undaunted heart explores.O Heaven! that such resemblance of the HighestShould yet remain, where faith and realtyRemain not: Wherefore should not strength and mightThere fail where virtue fails, or weakest proveWhere boldest, though to fight unconquerable?His puissance, trusting in the Almighty’s aid,I mean to try, whose reason I have triedUnsound and false; nor is it aught but just,That he, who in debate of truth hath won,Should win in arms, in both disputes alikeVictor; though brutish that contest and foul,When reason hath to deal with force, yet soMost reason is that reason overcome.So pondering, and from his armed peersForth stepping opposite, half-way he metHis daring foe, at this prevention moreIncensed, and thus securely him defied.Proud, art thou met? thy hope was to have reachedThe highth of thy aspiring unopposed,The throne of God unguarded, and his sideAbandoned, at the terrour of thy powerOr potent tongue: Fool!not to think how vainAgainst the Omnipotent to rise in arms;Who out of smallest things could, without end,Have raised incessant armies to defeatThy folly; or with solitary handReaching beyond all limit, at one blow,Unaided, could have finished thee, and whelmedThy legions under darkness: But thou seestAll are not of thy train; there be, who faithPrefer, and piety to God, though thenTo thee not visible, when I aloneSeemed in thy world erroneous to dissentFrom all: My sect thou seest;now learn too lateHow few sometimes may know, when thousands err.Whom the grand foe, with scornful eye askance,Thus answered. Ill for thee, but in wished hourOf my revenge, first sought for, thou returnestFrom flight, seditious Angel! to receiveThy merited reward, the first assayOf this right hand provoked, since first that tongue,Inspired with contradiction, durst opposeA third part of the Gods, in synod metTheir deities to assert; who, while they feelVigour divine within them, can allowOmnipotence to none. But well thou comestBefore thy fellows, ambitious to winFrom me some plume, that thy success may showDestruction to the rest: This pause between,(Unanswered lest thou boast) to let thee know,At first I thought that Liberty and HeavenTo heavenly souls had been all one; but nowI see that most through sloth had rather serve,Ministring Spirits, trained up in feast and song!Such hast thou armed, the minstrelsy of Heaven,Servility with freedom to contend,As both their deeds compared this day shall prove.To whom in brief thus Abdiel stern replied.Apostate! still thou errest, nor end wilt findOf erring, from the path of truth remote:Unjustly thou depravest it with the nameOf servitude, to serve whom God ordains,Or Nature: God and Nature bid the same,When he who rules is worthiest, and excelsThem whom he governs. This is servitude,To serve the unwise, or him who hath rebelledAgainst his worthier, as thine now serve thee,Thyself not free, but to thyself enthralled;Yet lewdly darest our ministring upbraid.Reign thou in Hell, thy kingdom; let me serveIn Heaven God ever blest, and his divineBehests obey, worthiest to be obeyed;Yet chains in Hell, not realms, expect: Mean whileFrom me returned, as erst thou saidst, from flight,This greeting on thy impious crest receive.So saying, a noble stroke he lifted high,Which hung not, but so swift with tempest fellOn the proud crest of Satan, that no sight,Nor motion of swift thought, less could his shield,Such ruin intercept: Ten paces hugeHe back recoiled; the tenth on bended kneeHis massy spear upstaid; as if on earthWinds under ground, or waters forcing way,Sidelong had pushed a mountain from his seat,Half sunk with all his pines. Amazement seisedThe rebel Thrones, but greater rage, to seeThus foiled their mightiest; ours joy filled, and shout,Presage of victory, and fierce desireOf battle: Whereat Michael bid soundThe Arch-Angel trumpet; through the vast of HeavenIt sounded, and the faithful armies rungHosanna to the Highest: Nor stood at gazeThe adverse legions, nor less hideous joinedThe horrid shock. Now storming fury rose,And clamour such as heard in Heaven till nowWas never; arms on armour clashing brayedHorrible discord, and the madding wheelsOf brazen chariots raged; dire was the noiseOf conflict; over head the dismal hissOf fiery darts in flaming vollies flew,And flying vaulted either host with fire.So under fiery cope together rushedBoth battles main, with ruinous assaultAnd inextinguishable rage. All HeavenResounded; and had Earth been then, all EarthHad to her center shook. What wonder? whenMillions of fierce encountering Angels foughtOn either side, the least of whom could wieldThese elements, and arm him with the forceOf all their regions: How much more of powerArmy against army numberless to raiseDreadful combustion warring, and disturb,Though not destroy, their happy native seat;Had not the Eternal King Omnipotent,From his strong hold of Heaven, high over-ruledAnd limited their might; though numbered suchAs each divided legion might have seemedA numerous host; in strength each armed handA legion; led in fight, yet leader seemedEach warriour single as in chief, expertWhen to advance, or stand, or turn the swayOf battle, open when, and when to closeThe ridges of grim war: No thought of flight,None of retreat, no unbecoming deedThat argued fear; each on himself relied,As only in his arm the moment layOf victory: Deeds of eternal fameWere done, but infinite; for wide was spreadThat war and various; sometimes on firm groundA standing fight, then, soaring on main wing,Tormented all the air; all air seemed thenConflicting fire. Long time in even scaleThe battle hung; till Satan, who that dayProdigious power had shown, and met in armsNo equal, ranging through the dire attackOf fighting Seraphim confused, at lengthSaw where the sword of Michael smote, and felledSquadrons at once; with huge two-handed swayBrandished aloft, the horrid edge came downWide-wasting; such destruction to withstandHe hasted, and opposed the rocky orbOf tenfold adamant, his ample shield,A vast circumference. At his approachThe great Arch-Angel from his warlike toilSurceased, and glad, as hoping here to endIntestine war in Heaven, the arch-foe subduedOr captive dragged in chains, with hostile frownAnd visage all inflamed first thus began.Author of evil, unknown till thy revolt,Unnamed in Heaven, now plenteous as thou seestThese acts of hateful strife, hateful to all,Though heaviest by just measure on thyself,And thy adherents: How hast thou disturbedHeaven’s blessed peace, and into nature broughtMisery, uncreated till the crimeOf thy rebellion! how hast thou instilledThy malice into thousands, once uprightAnd faithful, now proved false! But think not hereTo trouble holy rest; Heaven casts thee outFrom all her confines. Heaven, the seat of bliss,Brooks not the works of violence and war.Hence then, and evil go with thee along,Thy offspring, to the place of evil, Hell;Thou and thy wicked crew! there mingle broils,Ere this avenging sword begin thy doom,Or some more sudden vengeance, winged from God,Precipitate thee with augmented pain.So spake the Prince of Angels; to whom thusThe Adversary. Nor think thou with windOf aery threats to awe whom yet with deedsThou canst not. Hast thou turned the least of theseTo flight, or if to fall, but that they riseUnvanquished, easier to transact with meThat thou shouldst hope, imperious, and with threatsTo chase me hence? err not, that so shall endThe strife which thou callest evil, but we styleThe strife of glory; which we mean to win,Or turn this Heaven itself into the HellThou fablest; here however to dwell free,If not to reign: Mean while thy utmost force,And join him named Almighty to thy aid,I fly not, but have sought thee far and nigh.They ended parle, and both addressed for fightUnspeakable; for who, though with the tongueOf Angels, can relate, or to what thingsLiken on earth conspicuous, that may liftHuman imagination to such highthOf Godlike power? for likest Gods they seemed,Stood they or moved, in stature, motion, arms,Fit to decide the empire of great Heaven.Now waved their fiery swords, and in the airMade horrid circles; two broad suns their shieldsBlazed opposite, while Expectation stoodIn horrour: From each hand with speed retired,Where erst was thickest fight, the angelick throng,And left large field, unsafe within the windOf such commotion; such as, to set forthGreat things by small, if, nature’s concord broke,Among the constellations war were sprung,Two planets, rushing from aspect malignOf fiercest opposition, in mid skyShould combat, and their jarring spheres confound.Together both with next to almighty armUp-lifted imminent, one stroke they aimedThat might determine, and not need repeat,As not of power at once; nor odds appearedIn might or swift prevention: But the swordOf Michael from the armoury of GodWas given him tempered so, that neither keenNor solid might resist that edge: it metThe sword of Satan, with steep force to smiteDescending, and in half cut sheer; nor staid,But with swift wheel reverse, deep entering, sharedAll his right side: Then Satan first knew pain,And writhed him to and fro convolved; so soreThe griding sword with discontinuous woundPassed through him: But the ethereal substance closed,Not long divisible; and from the ****A stream of necturous humour issuing flowedSanguine, such as celestial Spirits may bleed,And all his armour stained, ere while so bright.Forthwith on all sides to his aid was runBy Angels many and strong, who interposedDefence, while others bore him on their shieldsBack to his chariot, where it stood retiredFrom off the files of war: There they him laidGnashing for anguish, and despite, and shame,To find himself not matchless, and his prideHumbled by such rebuke, so far beneathHis confidence to equal God in power.Yet soon he healed; for Spirits that live throughoutVital in every part, not as frail manIn entrails, heart of head, liver or reins,Cannot but by annihilating die;Nor in their liquid texture mortal woundReceive, no more than can the fluid air:All heart they live, all head, all eye, all ear,All intellect, all sense; and, as they please,They limb themselves, and colour, shape, or sizeAssume, as?***** them best, condense or rare.Mean while in other parts like deeds deservedMemorial, where the might of Gabriel fought,And with fierce ensigns pierced the deep arrayOf Moloch, furious king; who him defied,And at his chariot-wheels to drag him boundThreatened, nor from the Holy One of HeavenRefrained his tongue blasphemous; but anonDown cloven to the waist, with shattered armsAnd uncouth pain fled bellowing. On each wingUriel, and Raphael, his vaunting foe,Though huge, and in a rock of diamond armed,Vanquished Adramelech, and Asmadai,Two potent Thrones, that to be less than